On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Mark Phillips wrote: > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:37:57 -0700 > From: Mark Phillips <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: Phoenix Linux Users <[email protected]>, > Portland Linux Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] Do I need more RAM? > > I have a Zope/Plone 2.5 web site running on Debian on a Linode virtual host. > It has grown over the last few years, and now I need to add some more disk > space. The site is for a school newspaper, so from August - June, students > add news articles and photos. > > I was also looking at the output of top, and perhaps I need more RAM as > well? Top shows I have only 5 MB free out of 368 MB of total RAM, but I am > only using 9% of my swap, so perhaps I don't need more RAM. The site does > not seem slow. > > Tasks: 69 total, 1 running, 68 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 368836k total, 363364k used, 5472k free, 8316k buffers > Swap: 524280k total, 46716k used, 477564k free, 67436k cached > > Thanks for any suggestions you may have. > > Mark
I don't think you can tell much from this output because of the usage of the disk cache. You would need to run a command like "ps fauxw" and examine the memory usage of individual processes. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
