On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:02:00PM +0100, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
>
> I just got a snip into my amavisd's 5 children /proc/<pid>/smaps file,
> summing together the count of Private_{Clean|Dirty} pages.
>
> I got this:
>
> p1: 74,164 kb
> p2: 70,772 kb
> p3: 71,548 kb
> p4: 74,064 kb
> p5: 70,784 kb
>
> This accounts for a total of unique 287,168 kB (say 280 MB?). ~ 56MB in the
> average.
>
> Sounds this good?
Memory management is tricky though. Hard to tell which values sum up to the
real thing.
Probably best meter on Linux is the actual free value highlighted below?
Check it before starting amavisd/spamd/whatnot and check it again after
running for a while. Also double check it after killing all the processes.
I'm open to be proved otherwise..
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1047496 944236 103260 0 2904 284336
-/+ buffers/cache: 656996 ___390500___
Swap: 524272 266668 257604
