Re: what commands show memory usage

2013-05-14 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 05/14/2013 08:56 PM, Joe wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 05/14/2013 08:32 PM, Joe wrote: When stopping vnet jails get message about lost memory pages. What console commands show available memory pages so I can determine the lost memory pages after 100 stopped jails? Want to find out if that l

what commands show memory usage

2013-05-14 Thread Joe
When stopping vnet jails get message about lost memory pages. What console commands show available memory pages so I can determine the lost memory pages after 100 stopped jails? Want to find out if that lost memory page message is bogus or not. Thanks ___

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
12M uwait 0 18.3H > > 39.06% /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloade > > > > ...how can the size of the resident memory of pid 6913 be > 512 > > megabytes? > > I don't know but you can inspect the java application with the java >

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
y of pid 6913 be > 512 > megabytes? I don't know but you can inspect the java application with the java console (jconsole). There are several stats on memory usage. With JDownloader (doing nothing), I see 57 MB of "non heap memory usage", and "only" 30 MB of heap mem

issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the following top(1) output: last pid: 13875; load averages: 0.73, 0.75, 0.68 65 processes: 2 running, 62 sleeping, 1 waiting CPU 0: 19.5% user, 0.0% nice, 13.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 67.2% idle CPU 1: 20.3% user

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp writes: > You wouldn't want to know when your machine has reached periods of high > memory utilization? No, I want to know when my machine would perform better if it had more memory. Keeping memory in use when it otherwise would be "free" means I get *better* performance. > Occurren

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Jon Schipp wrote: > I'm under the impression that virtual memory and physical memory usage are > very different. > > e.g. vmstat and top report very different memory values. > If I assume this is an XY problem, and your true goal is find out

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Jon Schipp writes: > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei > wrote: > > > >> On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > >> > >>

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Nov 3 08:17:46 2011 > > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:18:06 -0400 > > From: Jon Schipp > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Check Memory Usage

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp writes: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > >> On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: >> >>> Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 >>> RELEASE)? >>> In vain of 'free'

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread mrkvrg
Hello Jon, Perhaps the port sysutils/freecolor. Cheers ... Mark >Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 >RELEASE)? >In vain of 'free' in Linux. >I know you can check the values with sysctl, I was just checking if anyone >has a "

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:06:19 -0400 Jon Schipp wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > > > On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > > > >> Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 > >> RELEASE)? > >

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > >> Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 >> RELEASE)? >> In vain of 'free' in Linux. >> >> I know you can check

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Edward
On 11/3/11 9:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 > RELEASE)? Hi Jon, Check out the port /usr/ports/sysutils/sysinfo . HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 RELEASE)? In vain of 'free' in Linux. I know you can check the values with sysctl, I was just checking if anyone has a "cleaner" option. I was always curious. Thanks Jon ___

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-31 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Coert wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: > > Mem:   2075424k total,  1760848k used,   314576k free,   151872k buffers > Swap:  4192924k total,        0k used,  4192924k

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread RW
On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 +0200 Coert wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like > this: > > Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k > buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 419292

top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread Coert
Hello all, Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k buffers Swap: 4192924k total,0k used, 4192924k free, 1214052k cached on FreeBSD: Mem: 48M Active, 945M Inact, 190M Wired,

Re: API to find the memory usage of a process.

2010-03-20 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:28:48 Jayadev Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. > Is there any system call > do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I > couldn't find the p

Re: API to find the memory usage of a process.

2010-03-18 Thread Charlie Kester
On Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 18:30:00 PDT J. Johnston wrote: On 03/18/10 10:28, Jayadev Kumar wrote: Hi, I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. Is there any system call do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn'

Re: API to find the memory usage of a process.

2010-03-18 Thread J. Johnston
On 03/18/10 10:28, Jayadev Kumar wrote: Hi, I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. Is there any system call do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn't find the port which it is coming from yet. Thanks,

API to find the memory usage of a process.

2010-03-18 Thread Jayadev Kumar
Hi, I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. Is there any system call do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn't find the port which it is coming from yet.

Re: Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-27 Thread b. f.
>I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU >and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can >somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions >to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for >information via

Re: Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Manish Jain wrote: I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep f

Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-26 Thread Manish Jain
Hello, I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for informa

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
s is one cause for filled Active memory: a process polling multiple file descriptors, like a File Alteration Monitor under current desktops. The other, as Dan Nelson described, is file cache. If you want to be sure it's this, then reboot the machine and run: /etc/periodic/security/100.ch

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Mel Flynn
hen reboot the machine and run: /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid You should see memory usage going up. If this causes a performance problem (i.e. You sometimes are subject to heavily increasing loads on a mailserver, that causes a lot of forks and file cache memory isn't unloaded fast en

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
gt; What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where > >>>>> memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - tried > >>>>> different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of > >>>>> mem

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
- tried different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of memory does not show at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usa

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
mething but I fail to see what is using it - tried > >>> different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of > >>> memory does not show at all. > >>> > >>> A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production &

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
ory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - > >>> tried different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big > >>> chunk of memory does not show at all. > >>> > >>> A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
but a big chunk of memory does not show at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when gi

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
but a big chunk of memory does not show at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when gi

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Michael David Crawford
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets near the by now 3G plus memory shown as "Active". Maybe one gig is accounted for, I'm not that familiar with FreeBSD yet, but the kernel uses memory which might not be charged against any

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets nea

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
the stat tools but a big chunk of > > memory does not show at all. > > > > A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production > > box? > > I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to > sort by resident me

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Bill Moran
at all. > > A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://pe

memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hello, What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - tried different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of memory does not show at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Grant Peel skrev: Hi all, Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use mrtg to show memory and disk usage? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:47:32 -0500, "Grant Peel" a écrit : > Hi all, > > Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any > FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use > mrtg to show memory and disk usage? Mrtg needs a script that returns four lines : -

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
uade it to make the equivalent queries to get disk or memory usage stats. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninop

Memory Usage

2009-01-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use mrtg to show memory and disk usage? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-17 06:00, Patrick Dung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have correction with the script but still doesn't work: > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` > do > echo "user: $user" > >ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line >do > >

Re: Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-17 Thread Patrick Dung
I have correction with the script but still doesn't work: #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo "user: $user" ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo $line | awk {'print $4'}` echo "mem: $mem" TMPSUMM

Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-14 Thread Patrick Dung
Hello, any idea about why below script is not working? The final sum is empty.. #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo "user: $user" ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo $line | awk {'print $4'}` echo "mem

Re: Understanding top and memory usage

2006-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Philip Radford wrote: [ ... ] When using the top command I get the following in regards to memory usage. Mem: 223M Active, 970M Inact, 175M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 73M Free Swap: 3029M Total, 12K Used, 3029M Free Can someone advise me which figure relates to actual physical memory which

Understanding top and memory usage

2006-08-02 Thread Philip Radford
Hi All, This is a question which probably applies to all unix based OS as well as FreeBSD. When using the top command I get the following in regards to memory usage. Mem: 223M Active, 970M Inact, 175M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 73M Free Swap: 3029M Total, 12K Used, 3029M Free Can someone

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-23 Thread Vinicius Vianna
From what I read you should only change kern.maxdsiz, changing kern.dfldsiz makes every process allocating this amount of memory by default, thats bad. Something like: kern.maxdsiz="1395864371" # 1.3GB #kern.dfldsiz="1395864371" # 1.3GB #kern.maxssiz="134217728" # 128MB would do the trick for

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Thaddeus Quintin wrote: Or maybe it's trying to ask for a big shared memory segment...? Your guess is as good as mine. Are there tools or anything else I can use to try and figure this out? MySQL probably has some documentation which would help, although if you

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Thaddeus Quintin
On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Thaddeus Quintin wrote: I already took care of that, it was in my first email- I tweaked /boot/loader.conf to allow larger data size for processes already (rebooted after changes)- kern.maxdsiz="1395864371" # 1.3G

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Thaddeus Quintin wrote: I already took care of that, it was in my first email- I tweaked /boot/loader.conf to allow larger data size for processes already (rebooted after changes)- kern.maxdsiz="1395864371" # 1.3GB kern.dfldsiz="1395864371" # 1.3GB kern.maxssiz="13

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Thaddeus Quintin
On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: FreeBSD defaults to having a 512MB maximum process datasize. Add something like: kern.dfldsiz="1G" ...to /boot/loader.conf. I already took care of that, it was in my first email- I tweaked /boot/loader.conf to allow larger data siz

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Thaddeus Quintin wrote: The issue that I'm having is that when I start up MySQL I get a couple "Out of Memory" errors before it actually starts up. Looks like this- 060719 11:55:35 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43656 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Out of m

Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Thaddeus Quintin
I'm working on a FreeBSD 6.1 machine and setting up MySQL 5.0 with some InnoDB tables. The machine has 2GB of RAM and will primarily be used as a database machine and will also be serving files over NFS (not high volume). The issue that I'm having is that when I start up MySQL I get a cou

Re: memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
ecot, > > > mysql5.0, cacti, and a couple other small things (like snmp, my bx irc > > > shell, etc). > > > > > > when ever i look at the memory usage (via phpsysinfo, or cacti graphs), > > > its nearly always showing less than 100mb of ram available

Re: memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Michal Mertl
snmp, my bx irc shell, etc). > > > > when ever i look at the memory usage (via phpsysinfo, or cacti graphs), its > > nearly always showing less than 100mb of ram available. top shows several > > perls (probably spamassassin), 8 or so httpds (typical), but that would > &

Re: memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:19:41PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > i just upgraded to the new phpsysinfo rc2, and it shows more detailed > information about what the memory usage is doing. it shows that 1.57GB is > being used by buffers. what is the significance of 1.57GB of mem

Re: memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
hen ever i look at the memory usage (via phpsysinfo, or cacti graphs), its > nearly always showing less than 100mb of ram available. top shows several > perls (probably spamassassin), 8 or so httpds (typical), but that would > probably only account for (a liberal guess) 500-600 mb of ram. &g

memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a server that has 2GB ram, recently upgraded from 1GB ram. it runs apache2.0 with php5, sendmail with spamass-milter, dovecot, mysql5.0, cacti, and a couple other small things (like snmp, my bx irc shell, etc). when ever i look at the memory usage (via phpsysinfo, or cacti graphs), its

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Hurst
* David Banning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You might also consider switching to something like lighttpd, which > > uses a single process that's generally about 1/3 the size of an > > equivilent httpd process. > > I like these ideas. Thanks. What is the downside, if any, to using > lighttpd? Is

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-14 Thread David Banning
> Moving things like mod_php and mod_perl stuff to FastCGI avoids each > httpd having a copy of the interpreter and its various data structures > each, and segments the memory of the interpreters outside httpd so it's > easier to see what's using the memory; you'll have fewer copies running > too,

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Hurst
* David Banning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I seem to have a lot of memory being eaten by httpd (part output of top); > Any ideas to have httpd timeout sooner to preserve memory? MaxRequestsPerChild is there to cope with leaks, it won't help if Apache is using a lot of memory to start with thou

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-11 Thread David Banning
to have httpd timeout sooner to preserve memory? > > If you want to reduce the memory usage, avoid using mod_perl or PHP. httpd > ought to shrink down to ~5MB or so per process. Here is the thing though. I can "apachectl restart" and memory is plentiful. So it seems like htt

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
he is normally run in a prefork mode, which means it keeps lots of children (default is 5, plus the master) running all of the time. Any ideas to have httpd timeout sooner to preserve memory? If you want to reduce the memory usage, avoid using mod_perl or PHP. httpd ought to shrink down to ~5

httpd and memory usage

2005-06-11 Thread David Banning
I seem to have a lot of memory being eaten by httpd (part output of top); 62310 nobody 18 0 26792K 21516K lockf0:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd 162 root 2 0 4328K 2244K select 0:04 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 63909 nobody 18 0 26824K 21528K lockf0:03 0.00% 0.

Re: please educate me on memory usage

2004-09-24 Thread Norm Vilmer
Gregor Mosheh wrote: I was looking at my top output and was surprised to see that the bulk of my 512 MB of memory was in use, since the server really has fairly little running. It's not a problem, but I was wanting some clarification on where this memory was being used, for my own education. The or

Re: please educate me on memory usage

2004-09-24 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Gregor Mosheh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at my top output and was surprised to > see that the bulk of my 512 MB of memory was in use, > since the server really has fairly little running. > It's not a problem, but I was wanting some > clarifi

please educate me on memory usage

2004-09-24 Thread Gregor Mosheh
I was looking at my top output and was surprised to see that the bulk of my 512 MB of memory was in use, since the server really has fairly little running. It's not a problem, but I was wanting some clarification on where this memory was being used, for my own education. The original goal was that

Re: memory usage question

2004-08-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:39:40PM +0200, Mipam wrote: > I have a question about usage of memory. > Despite the well documented articles about it some things are still > unclear. In top we see memory devided in several items: Try this article, buy the guy who wrote some very large chunks of the

memory usage question

2004-08-17 Thread Mipam
Hi, I have a question about usage of memory. Despite the well documented articles about it some things are still unclear. In top we see memory devided in several items: Active, inactive, buffered, wired and free. The active memory is clear, it's what is in use by programs now. Wired mem is also c

Re: How to get memory usage for process?

2004-04-09 Thread Uwe Doering
Artem Koutchine wrote: Hi! I need to figure out how much memory process really takes. For example, i am running 100 perl scripts, they are all the same source and i guess some memory is shared among them (mostly perl interperter i guess). So, i need to know how much memory is shared and how much m

Re: How to get memory usage for process?

2004-04-06 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Artem Koutchine wrote: > Hi! > > I need to figure out how much memory process really takes. > For example, i am running 100 perl scripts, they are all the > same source and i guess some memory is shared among them > (mostly perl interperter i guess). So, i need to know how much

How to get memory usage for process?

2004-04-06 Thread Artem Koutchine
Hi! I need to figure out how much memory process really takes. For example, i am running 100 perl scripts, they are all the same source and i guess some memory is shared among them (mostly perl interperter i guess). So, i need to know how much memory is shared and how much memory is used for each

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: > >> Dan Nelson wrote: > >> > In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: > >> > > >> >> 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: > >> >> "

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: >> Dan Nelson wrote: >> > In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: >> > >> >> 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: >> >> "RES is the current amount of resident memory", but does >> >>

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: > >> 1.) Where is my Free memory going? I can't account for it > >> in the SIZE and RES columns of the various processes. > >> These are relatively constant. > > > >

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: > > > >> 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: > >> "RES is the current amount of resident memory", but does > >> that mean RES is included

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: >> 1.) Where is my Free memory going? I can't account for it >> in the SIZE and RES columns of the various processes. >> These are relatively constant. > > Disk cache. I thought it might be something like that. My la

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
I consider a Bad Thing. Having said that, yes, it is still a very memory intensive pipeline. I took some time to profile the memory usage a few days ago, and it looks like the most memory the pipeline should ever use at any given point in time is ~12780K, with the following processes running:

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-11 Thread gv-list-freebsdquestions
As I watch the email travel down the qmail-smtpd->qmail-qfilter-> custom-python->>qmail-scanner->clamd->qmail-queue "pipeline", J> I watch the memory usage with `top`. J> Memory is critical in this type of application, since I run my J> qmail-smtpd "pipeline

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: > 1.) Where is my Free memory going? I can't account for it > in the SIZE and RES columns of the various processes. > These are relatively constant. Disk cache. > 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: > "RES is

`top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-11 Thread Jesse Guardiani
smtpd->qmail-qfilter-> custom-python->qmail-scanner->clamd->qmail-queue "pipeline", I watch the memory usage with `top`. Memory is critical in this type of application, since I run my qmail-smtpd "pipeline" under DJB's softlimit program. I MUST know how much memory

Re: Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Florian Lorenzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep, I mean login class and I ran cap_mkdb afterwards. > > Any other hints? What does limits(1) tell you? > Florian > > > > I tried to limit core-use of mldonkey by putting it into a seperate > > > login group with a lowered maxmemorysize but that

Re: Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Florian Lorenzen
Yep, I mean login class and I ran cap_mkdb afterwards. Any other hints? Florian > > I tried to limit core-use of mldonkey by putting it into a seperate > > login group with a lowered maxmemorysize but that had no effect. I also > > niced it up, but that has no effect on swap usage, of course. >

Re: Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
ts swapping. This is in > general not a big problem but it slows down the whole machine, which is > also running several other services. My question now is how to limit the > mldonkey-precess' memory usage. I've got 64 MB of core and the CPU is a > Pentium 166, so not to fast at a

Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Florian Lorenzen
nning several other services. My question now is how to limit the mldonkey-precess' memory usage. I've got 64 MB of core and the CPU is a Pentium 166, so not to fast at all, but sufficient for everything else. top tells me that under normal load, without the mldonkey, about about five MB o

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:13:15AM -0500, Matt Winslow wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM > > yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used > > when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used > >

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:13:15AM -0500, Matt Winslow wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM > yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used > when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used > again. Being

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matt Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM > yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used > when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used > again. Being newer to BSD, is

Re: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Matt Winslow wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:13:15 -0500 > From: Matt Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Question about memory usage > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM > yeste

RE: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Barry Byrne
CTED] > Subject: Question about memory usage > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM > yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used > when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used >

Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Matt Winslow
I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, on a P-133 system. I just upgraded my RAM yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because it always used to sit at 93-94% used when I had 80. Well now that I installed more, it's sitting at 93% used again. Being newer to BSD, is there a way I can check what is using memory...or do

Re: XFree86 memory usage

2002-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to figure out why X11 is using so much memory on my > workstation. Here is the output from 'top': > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPUCPU COMMAND > 236 steve 2 0 215M 210M select 1 435:16 0.05% 0.

XFree86 memory usage

2002-11-11 Thread Steve Wingate
I'm trying to figure out why X11 is using so much memory on my workstation. Here is the output from 'top': PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 236 steve 2 0 215M 210M select 1 435:16 0.05% 0.05% XFree86 215MB seems like alot to me. OTOH, this