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High Memory usage but not seen by unix tools

christophe10

Using Jira v5.1 under SUSE Linux with mySQL running on the same server
JVM memory options : JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Xms2G -Xmx2G"
Lastest Java Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_38-b05)
Tomcat
Around 500 registered users
~ half of them currently logged

We experience high total unix memory usage

Free command result (reformated for easy reading)

Before we start our tomcat running only Jira (mySQL started)
Mem : total 8'889'816 ; used 1'546'856 free 7'342'960
After we have fully started Jira
Mem : total 8'889'816 ; used 80846856 free 429'60

The "top" command reports

tomcat VIRT = 3038m RES =2.5g
mysql VIRT = 339m RES=41m

So the top commands tell me that 3038m is used by tomcat/Jira but the free command tells me that
4'304'960 has vanished somewhere !
And I can't regain those 4Gb even when I stop tomcat process

Any Idea ?
Is jira natively using system to allocate some memory external to the JVM ?
Is Jira loading a lot of native libraries ?

Accepted answers

christophe10

The Problem was in WMWare !

WMWare was not giving to Linux the RAM asked
Under linux the total RAM was reported there
But a non seen process was locking it
Instead of using real physical RAM Linux was swapping !
It didn't know it
So we add VERY high CPU usage and no reported Swap

All comments

JamieA

http://www.linuxatemyram.com/

In short - this is normal. The memory is used for caching files like the lucene indexes, classes etc. It's not shown as free but it is "available".

Renjith Pillai

Cached memory in Linux means, AFAIK, it was accessed and mapped to page tables, then released by the app and available quickly when demanded.

christophe10

Thanks for you answer
I have read the http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
I knew already the -/+ buffers/cache
free reportes me 350'220
which is pretty low regarding my 9Gb of total memory

christophe10

Thanks for you answer
I have read the http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
I knew already the -/+ buffers/cache
free reportes me 350'220 : 350kb is pretty low
Pretty low regarding my 9Gb of total memory

christophe10

The Problem was in WMWare !

WMWare was not giving to Linux the RAM asked
Under linux the total RAM was reported there
But a non seen process was locking it
Instead of using real physical RAM Linux was swapping !
It didn't know it
So we add VERY high CPU usage and no reported Swap

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