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: 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

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%

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
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 memory. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
of the resident memory 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. jconsole doesn't seem to work for me. all i get is a blank white X window. :( cheers. alex With JDownloader (doing

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 ___ freebsd

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 list http

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 bsdlis...@gmail.com 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 the values with sysctl, I was just checking

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 jonsch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com 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 cleaner option. I was always curious

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

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp jonsch...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com 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 Jon Schipp
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.comwrote: 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 jonsch...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Check Memory Usage

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

2011-11-03 Thread Jon Schipp
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 __**_ freebsd-questions

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 jonsch...@gmail.com 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 what

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

2011-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jon Schipp jonsch...@gmail.com 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*

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-31 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za 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 free

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, 112M

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-27 Thread RW
On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 +0200 Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za 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 free

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 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. Thanks, Jayadev

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, Jayadev

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't find the port

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

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 the

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

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
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 box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
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 box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
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 live, this is a production box? I've

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Mel Flynn
: 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.chksetuid You should see memory usage going up

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
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.chksetuid You should see memory usage

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 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://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
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 usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when given

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
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. Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
), 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 usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when given

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
), 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 usage, which helps. ps will sort by memory usage when given

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
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 box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:47:32 -0500, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com 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

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

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

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
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.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate

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

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 mem=`echo

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:

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: 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

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 you,

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

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

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 size

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

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 # 1.3GB

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

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: memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
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. is there a good way to find out

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 memory being used

Re: memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Michal Mertl
). 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 probably only account for (a liberal guess) 500-600 mb of ram

Re: memory usage

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
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. top shows several perls (probably spamassassin), 8 or so httpds (typical), but that would

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

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: 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 it

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%

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 ~5MB

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-11 Thread David Banning
300 to 100 which does not seem to help. It wouldn't. Apache 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

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

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 clarification

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

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

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 VM

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

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: 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

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

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
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: USER PID PPID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND

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 large test

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 in SIZE? Or

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. Disk cache. I

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 that mean RES is

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: RES is the current

`top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-11 Thread Jesse Guardiani
-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 to allocate for the upper limit of each pipeline, otherwise qmail

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 the

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

2003-09-11 Thread gv-list-freebsdquestions
-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 under DJB's softlimit program. I MUST J know how much memory to allocate for the upper limit of each J

Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Florian Lorenzen
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 of core are free

Re: Limiting memory usage of a certain process.

2003-01-31 Thread Ruben de Groot
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 all, but sufficient for everything else. top tells me

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. When

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

RE: Question about memory usage

2002-11-19 Thread Barry Byrne
: 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 again. Being newer to BSD, is there a way I can check

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 yesterday from 80MB to 256MB, because

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 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 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 again.

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