using `ps aux | grep mongrel` will give you an idea (in a percentage)
of what your mongrels' are weighing in at.
the more you're loading into the env, the heavier they will be.

rails stack for a hello world app with a few frameworks disabled is
around 60mb.
so thats your baseline.

On Jul 27, 7:42 pm, sol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm wondering about the memory usage on my rootserver and have some
> basic questions.
>
> free -m:
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> Mem:          1003        928         75          0        311
> 75
> -/+ buffers/cache:        540        462
> Swap:         2047          0       2047
>
> So I have a total of 1003m, with 540m currently used.
> I'm running 2 mongrel servers, nginx and postgres which shouldn't be
> very much.
>
> top reports (RES column)
> 2 mongrels, each around 60 mb (somehow htop reports somehow 4
> mongrels, but as I read this is a different story)
> 1 postmaster process (postgres) around 10mb
> and a couple of smaller processes.
>
> If I sum up the RES column in htop, its around 180m
>
> Munin report for the memory usage (curr)
> apps: 145m
>
> My question:
> I don't fully understand that, I thought the free -m value of 540m is
> the actually used memory? But this seems way too high to me, 50%
> actually used.
>
> Can anyone please give some explanations?


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