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>> I'm trying to maximize the number of servers I can run on my machine |
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>> without running out of physical RAM. I noticed something strange when |
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>> comparing top and free statistics: |
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>> top says each PID associated with a particular server has a RES of |
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>> about 100M. Does that mean each running instance of that server |
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>> reserves 100MB? Since there are 20 of these servers running, this |
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>> seems contradictory to the output from free which indicates less than |
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>> 1GB used -/+ buffers/cache. |
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>> Is there any way to monitor RAM usage over time to see how close I'm |
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>> getting to using all of my physical RAM? |
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>> - Grant |
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> Check out my friend's information here http://koltsoff.com/pub/ures/ and the |
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> accompanying Meminfo script (linked at bottom of ^ web page). |
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> -- |
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> Happy Penguin Computers >') |
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Thanks for that info. The answer to this question seems pretty |
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indefinite. I'm now logging 'free' to a file once per minute so I can |
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see how real-world traffic affects overall memory usage. Still I |
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would need to see the system with processed forked all the way to |
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MaxClients to know how close it gets to OOM. |
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- Grant |
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