mabshoff wrote: > > > On Jan 13, 10:52 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> I noticed that for my Sage server, each open worksheet took about 140MB >> of RAM. When I ran out of memory, the server froze and lots of errors >> happened. To me, it sounds like you probably ran out of memory if you >> had 15 worksheets open simultaneously (which I would calculate would >> need about 15*140=2100 MB of RAM). > > This is not how this works, i.e. a lot of the memory Sage uses is > shared mappings between libraries, so the first notebook process is > much, much more expensive than subsequent ones. top and the default > interface it uses on Linux is dumb regarding shared mappings, i.e. > every notebook process is reported to use every library that is > dlopened by Sage. >
Okay, I was using top to calculate this. What is a better way to calculate the actual memory being used? I'd like to have an accurate idea of the memory requirements of a big Sage server. Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
