I don't know anything about Slicehost - but surely you should have some swap space?
Cheers, Tony 2008/9/24 D. Krmpotic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Roberto, thank you for the answer. > > I checked and saw that I already have reduced mem_limit for sphinx > indexer to 64MB. > It seems that even this is too much for my slice, when it shouldn't > be... Check this (I'm baffled): > > Mem: 523008k total, 470204k used, 52804k free, 1896k buffers > Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 41524k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 2218 david 15 0 204m 108m 1936 S 0 21.2 2:22.51 thin > 2223 david 15 0 201m 104m 2100 S 0 20.5 1:33.93 thin > 2210 david 15 0 130m 60m 1352 S 0 11.8 0:04.31 thin > 13651 david 16 0 108m 34m 1464 S 0 6.8 0:01.52 ruby > 2102 mysql 15 0 162m 32m 1524 S 0 6.4 0:07.48 mysqld > 2378 root 16 0 40608 6512 856 S 0 1.2 0:02.34 munin-node > 2472 postgres 16 0 99.6m 4836 2168 S 0 0.9 0:00.85 postgres > 13653 postgres 16 0 99.1m 4064 1876 S 0 0.8 0:00.03 postgres > 11600 david 16 0 19760 3384 940 S 0 0.6 0:00.12 bash > 2476 postgres 16 0 99.9m 3356 812 S 0 0.6 0:00.39 postgres > ..... > ..... > > So out of 512MB, only 52MB is free and that's why indexer reported > "Cannot allocate memory". > > Can you please help me understand how can 90% of memory be used if first > 5 lines in TOP total to 63% (the rest is negligible). So 3 thins, nginx, > mysql and postgres should not consume 90% of 512MB and the percentages > in the table confirm this. But still I only have 52MB left (!?). > > Thank you for any clarifications. > David > > > Roberto R wrote: >> I haven't used the UltraSphinx plugin, but Sphinx itself has a mem_limit >> configuration in its conf file to cap the amount of RAM that the indexer >> will use. >> >> Roberto >> blog.idearise.com >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:11 PM, D. Krmpotic < > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > -- Tony White --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---