Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] managing RAM usage
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:31:56
Message-Id: CAC=wYCHpX_n4rUqP=_sM0zBbJV-jPgBz1TJ97+mKkk8xNqyu8A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] managing RAM usage by Grant
1 On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > I'm trying to maximize the number of servers I can run on my machine
4 > without running out of physical RAM. I noticed something strange when
5 > comparing top and free statistics:
6 >
7 > top says each PID associated with a particular server has a RES of
8 > about 100M. Does that mean each running instance of that server
9 > reserves 100MB?
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12 Top man page:
13 17. RES -- Resident Memory Size (KiB)
14 The non-swapped physical memory a task has used.