1489276 free and 1548760 swap free when not running mairix. (This is on
Ubuntu 12.04).
I have 14 directories containing multiple mbox files, some of which are
over 1GB. 26GB of mail in all.
Here's a tail of the processes using up memory. Doesn't seem like
there's anything too impressive.
root 814 0.0 0.0 15776 8 tty4 Ss+ Jul16 0:00
/sbin/getty -8
38400 tty4
root 820 0.0 0.0 15776 8 tty5 Ss+ Jul16 0:00
/sbin/getty -8
38400 tty5
root 824 0.0 0.0 15776 8 tty2 Ss+ Jul16 0:00
/sbin/getty -8
38400 tty2
root 825 0.0 0.0 15776 8 tty3 Ss+ Jul16 0:00
/sbin/getty -8
38400 tty3
root 827 0.0 0.0 15776 8 tty6 Ss+ Jul16 0:00
/sbin/getty -8
38400 tty6
root 936 0.0 0.0 15776 8 tty1 Ss+ Jul16 0:00
/sbin/getty -8
38400 tty1
daemon 845 0.0 0.0 16900 0 ? Ss Jul16 0:00 atd
root 300 0.0 0.0 17224 0 ? S Jul16 0:00
upstart-udev-br
idge --daemon
1000 5383 0.0 0.0 18152 1268 pts/1 R+ 12:22 0:00 ps aux
root 844 0.0 0.0 19104 192 ? Ss Jul16 0:00 cron
root 386 0.0 0.0 21588 8 ? S Jul16 0:00
/sbin/udevd --d
aemon
root 404 0.0 0.0 21588 4 ? S Jul16 0:00
/sbin/udevd --d
aemon
root 305 0.0 0.0 21592 4 ? Ss Jul16 0:00
/sbin/udevd --d
aemon
1000 2109 0.0 0.0 23024 1252 pts/1 Ss Jul16 0:00
/bin/bash
1000 2463 0.0 0.0 23024 8 pts/2 Ss+ Jul16 0:00
/bin/bash
1000 5384 0.0 0.0 23024 744 pts/1 D+ 12:22 0:00
/bin/bash
1000 5385 0.0 0.0 23024 752 pts/1 D+ 12:22 0:00
/bin/bash
102 725 0.0 0.0 23908 4 ? Ss Jul16 0:00
dbus-daemon --s
ystem --fork --activation=upstart
root 1 0.0 0.0 24316 8 ? Ss Jul16 0:00
/sbin/init
1000 2363 0.0 0.0 26404 8 pts/0 Ss Jul16 0:00 -bash
1000 2462 0.0 0.0 26860 0 pts/0 S+ Jul16 0:00 screen
-r 2108.
pts-0.l00011v2
1000 2108 0.0 0.0 27328 660 ? Ss Jul16 0:00 SCREEN
root 742 0.0 0.0 49948 8 ? Ss Jul16 0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
-D
1000 2362 0.0 0.0 73352 532 ? S Jul16 0:01 sshd:
dprothero
@pts/0
root 2234 0.0 0.0 73352 676 ? Ss Jul16 0:00 sshd:
dprothero
[priv]
root 899 0.0 0.0 154920 8 ? Sl Jul16 0:26
/usr/sbin/VBoxS
ervice
whoopsie 840 0.0 0.0 187568 0 ? Ssl Jul16 0:00
whoopsie
syslog 755 0.0 0.0 249464 184 ? Sl Jul16 0:02
rsyslogd -c5
David
From: Jonathan Kamens [mailto:j...@kamens.us]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:14 PM
To: David Prothero
Cc: mairix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Mairix-users] mairix just exits with "Killed"
On 7/17/2012 3:03 PM, David Prothero wrote:
Thank you. It's the whole computer out of memory. It's running on a
virtual machine with 1.5GB of RAM. Is there a way to know how much RAM
will be needed? I assume it's relative to the mbox size. Would another
format like MH use less memory?
A better question than how much memory it needs is how much memory is
available. :-) I.e., the problem may be not that mairix is using a huge
amount of RAM, but rather that it's using a reasonable amount of RAM but
the VM it's running in is almost out of RAM even before you run it. The
reality is probably somewhere in between those two extremes.
How much memory does "free" report is available (the last number on the
"-/+ buffers/cache" line) when you're not running mairix? Do you have
swap space configured, and if so, how much swap is available?
You can find out what's using up memory by running "ps aux | sort -k
+5n". That'll display a complete process list with the most
memory-intensive processes at the bottom.
jik
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