comfused about /proc/meminfo



RHEL4

sar is showing 99% memory used. The apps seem to be only consumint half of
the 8G memory.
The /proc/meminfo file shows a very high value for the "Mapped" value .
.This seems to e nearly half of the 8G Memory . Is this normal ??

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8164748 kB
MemFree: 351040 kB
Buffers: 71476 kB
Cached: 200920 kB
SwapCached: 37684 kB
Active: 3758864 kB
Inactive: 165624 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 8164748 kB
LowFree: 351040 kB
SwapTotal: 16779884 kB
SwapFree: 16643608 kB
Dirty: 2384 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 3670064 kB
Slab: 173056 kB
CommitLimit: 20862256 kB
Committed_AS: 7815400 kB
PageTables: 13932 kB
VmallocTotal: 536870911 kB
VmallocUsed: 271300 kB
VmallocChunk: 536599035 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

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