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On Thursday 26 August 2010 01:06:59 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld writes: |
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> > Can you post the result of: "ps axu"? |
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> > This will give an indication which processes are running and using a |
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> > lot of memory. |
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> The fifth colums gives the memory, right? Should this add up to the total |
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> of the 'used' column in free -m? |
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> Because it does not: |
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> wonko@weird ~ $ free -m |
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> total used free shared buffers cached |
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> Mem: 3452 3117 334 0 39 279 |
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> -/+ buffers/cache: 2798 653 |
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> Swap: 4094 1472 2622 |
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> wonko@weird ~ $ total=0; for rss in $( ps aux | grep -v USER | awk '{print |
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> $6}' ); do (( total += rss )); done; echo $(( total / 1024 )) |
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> 1984 |
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> So, I get a sum of around 2 G with ps, while free -m shows 4.5 G. Whoops? |
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> Am I missing something here, or does it look like lots of RAM is not being |
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> freed? |
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> Wonko |
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Don't forget the buffers/cache. |
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The 2.5G you're missing is what is used in the buffers/cache line. |
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At least, that is how I see it. |
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Also, I generally look at the percentages used for the memory to find the |
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memory-hogs. |
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And your tv-viewer (java) is using quite a bit as well. |
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Maybe someone with more experience with tv-viewer apps can take a look and |
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maybe give a few pointers? |
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