On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 01:14:39AM -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm trying to maximize the number of servers I can run on my machine > without running out of physical RAM. I noticed something strange when > comparing top and free statistics: > > top says each PID associated with a particular server has a RES of > about 100M. Does that mean each running instance of that server > reserves 100MB? Since there are 20 of these servers running, this > seems contradictory to the output from free which indicates less than > 1GB used -/+ buffers/cache. > > Is there any way to monitor RAM usage over time to see how close I'm > getting to using all of my physical RAM? > > - Grant
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