At 09:16 PM 11/7/02 -0800, Mike Ni wrote:
Possibly any number of things, but what your real options are depend on the details. Things you *might* be able to do include --Folks,I am having performance issue with one of the application. It looks like it is running low on the memory. In addition to add new memory to the system, is there anything can be done while we are waiting for the memory upgrade?
1. Add a swap partition ... but if the performance problem is a speed issue, then slow swap probably will not help.
2. Reduce the number of other applications running on the system, so their use of RAM is minimized.
3. Check the app itself for configuration options that might cause it to use less memory.
4. If you are using a stock kernel, replace it with one customized for your system. Custom kernels usually use less memory (though with today's typical memory sizes, the benefit here is quite small, so this is only really useful if we're talking about a dedicated system with really small RAM).
To get better advice, tell us the application involved, what the performance problem is, why you believe it "looks like" it is running out of memory, and the basics of your system (hardware, Linux distro and version, kernel version). The output of "free" and the relevant line(s) from "ps aux" (or some variant that reports memory usage) would probably also be informative.
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