Re: Memory problems

2010-06-03 Thread Jonatan Soto
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: I fact I am setting this VM's for production and staging purposes. ESXi allows to create resources pools so it's possible to prioritize the

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:27:53AM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: I checked it out yesterday and I found a more 'realistic' memory usage than the shown with top or free. I would like to post links containing the exported images of the charts but I don't know why some fields (the important ones)

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-03 Thread Jonatan Soto
Hi there, On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:27:53AM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: I checked it out yesterday and I found a more 'realistic' memory usage than the shown with top or free. I would like to post links

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 04:56:21PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: Here it is (eg: Server1): target: 503386 pages current: 503386 pages So that looks like the vmware balloon driver has aquired 503386 pages (at 4KB each) which would be your 2GB missing memory. So

Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Jonatan Soto
Hi list, I'm facing a problem with lenny regarding to memory usage. I have 4 VM lenny based on top of a VMWare ESXi. The system is running for a few days and top command shows a very high amount of memory consumption for each server. I have a little knowledge of how linux (kernel 2.6) manages

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:06:30PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: Hi list, I'm facing a problem with lenny regarding to memory usage. I have 4 VM lenny based on top of a VMWare ESXi. The system is running for a few days and top command shows a very high amount of memory consumption for each

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Brian Oborn
On 06/02/2010 09:06 AM, Jonatan Soto wrote: Hi list, I'm facing a problem with lenny regarding to memory usage. I have 4 VM lenny based on top of a VMWare ESXi. The system is running for a few days and top command shows a very high amount of memory consumption for each server. I have a

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Jonatan, In my opinion your virtual machines have a very large memory (4G) if you only want to run the basic and a few daemons cut it and try again I belive the buffers are used because you have memory available to spare... chp...@refugio:~$ free total used free

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Jonatan Soto
Thank you very much for your quick responses. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:06:30PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: Hi list, I'm facing a problem with lenny regarding to memory usage. I have 4 VM lenny

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/02/2010 10:06 AM, Jonatan Soto wrote: Hi list, I'm facing a problem with lenny regarding to memory usage. I have 4 VM lenny based on top of a VMWare ESXi. The system is running for a few days and top command shows a very high amount of memory consumption for each server. I have a little

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:43:28PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: Well, that's what I did and that's why I decided to consult here because I thought it might be a problem since the memory usage shown in top doesn't match the amount of memory consumption of each process. The following corresponds

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:47:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Kernel Sampage Merging (in 2.6.33) might help reduce memory consumption. 2.6.32 has KSM. I am using it now (using 2.6.32 backport kernel). Works very well. /sys/kernel/mm/ksm# grep . * full_scans:2415 max_kernel_pages:0

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Jonatan Soto
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:43:28PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: Well, that's what I did and that's why I decided to consult here because I thought it might be a problem since the memory usage shown in top

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Jonatan Soto
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:47:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Kernel Sampage Merging (in 2.6.33) might help reduce memory consumption. 2.6.32 has KSM. I am using it now (using 2.6.32 backport kernel).

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Jonatan Soto
Hi Jaime, Thanks for your help. 2010/6/2 Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com Jonatan, In my opinion your virtual machines have a very large memory (4G) if you only want to run the basic and a few daemons cut it and try again I belive the buffers are used because you have memory available

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:25:34PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: Sorry, I should posted it before. This is also for server3, but 1 and 2 have the same problem. Server4 is not a valid example because I rebooted a couple of days ago and it seems to behave great for now. total

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:28:35PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:47:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Kernel Sampage Merging (in 2.6.33) might help reduce memory consumption.

Re: Memory problems

2010-06-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: I fact I am setting this VM's for production and staging purposes. ESXi allows to create resources pools so it's possible to prioritize the usage of resources and that fits my needs very well. So I believe you noticed that is a

net join memory problems

2005-03-13 Thread scribles
When I try to run net join to get samba to talk to the domain controller I get a bunch error messages about being out of memory and killing process. The same samba configuration works fine on other machines with the regular version of Sarge. Has anyone else come across this kind of problem with