On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:55:06 -0500 Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He's asking about how to measure the footprint of his httpd processes > inside Linux.
RSS size is the approximate answer although large amounts of the pages are shared which makes it trickier. If you are using apache then this is particularly true although you can till save a ton more for simpler applications by switching to thttpd or boa. > The fact that that memory may or may not in fact actually exist on > the host is a different issue. vmstat 5 will give you a good idea of how Linux itself sees its paging rates to disk and what is queued to run but won't tell you what is actually going on behind the scenes in the hypedvisor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
