# This was NOT taken during the hang.
# The memory usage was typical and the DB was NOT swapping. There was rougly 3 gigs of ram free.
[root@db1 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      8177356 kB
MemFree:         44944 kB
Buffers:        169484 kB
Cached:        3581180 kB
SwapCached:       1280 kB
Active:        5345968 kB
Inactive:      2567252 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      8177356 kB
LowFree:         44944 kB
SwapTotal:     2096472 kB
SwapFree:      2091236 kB
Dirty:           48908 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:     4161216 kB
Mapped:          50924 kB
Slab:           163796 kB
PageTables:      30416 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   6185148 kB
Committed_AS: 10509876 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:    263848 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359474295 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

[root@db1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)

[root@db1 ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-164.el5