Re[2]: [expert] huge memory usage!
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Not that it's any of my business - but what on earth are 1.7gb of swap good for? I just read that across the cubewall to my neighbor and he said Video editing (he does a lot of that) Then he said - In 10 years, we'll all be doing climate simulations on our laptops! cute... rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W
Re[2]: [expert] huge memory usage!
Originally I was goin to send this only to Sarang, then I finally saw what Sarang did - see the discovery process below: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean the Swap usage? Well, these are old programs which at some time No, not the swap usage.. but the the memory usage.. It shows 126MB used.. how??? top dosn't show any process which is using a lot of memory.. the total of top is about 15mb or so.. where does this extra memory usage come from? Previously you said: 3:31pm up 5 days, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle Mem: 899952K av, 556948K used, 343004K free, 0K shrd, 170032K buff Swap: 1791208K av, 118408K used, 1672800K free 265936K cached Now, I'm confused. Where do you see 15mb or so of memory used? Here, let me interpolate some commas: 3:31pm up 5 days, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle Mem: 899,952K av, 556,948K used, 343,004K free, 0K shrd, 170,032K buff Swap: 1,791,208K av, 118,408K used, 1,672,800K free 265,936K cached So I see 1/2 gig used. Also, beware - top shows 2 numbers - total RAM in use currently, AND total actual size of the program. Unfortunately top does NOT appear to allow you to sort on that 2nd number... Hmm. So, I added up all the numbers under top, and got 31,088 kbytes. Now you've got me wondering. What does ps -axl say? rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W
Re: Re[2]: [expert] huge memory usage!
Previously you said: 3:31pm up 5 days, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle Mem: 899952K av, 556948K used, 343004K free, 0K shrd, 170032K buff Swap: 1791208K av, 118408K used, 1672800K free 265936K cached Now, I'm confused. Where do you see 15mb or so of memory used? I was adding up the SIZE field of the processes shown by top. 3:31pm up 5 days, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle Mem: 899,952K av, 556,948K used, 343,004K free, 0K shrd, 170,032K buff Swap: 1,791,208K av, 118,408K used, 1,672,800K free 265,936K cached So I see 1/2 gig used. thats what I meant.. this thing shows 1/2 gig (actually its 126 MB aftre removing buff and cache) but the total of processes as seen in top is just around 15MB. Also, beware - top shows 2 numbers - total RAM in use currently, AND total actual size of the program. Unfortunately top does NOT appear to allow you to sort on that 2nd number... Hmm. So, I added up all the numbers under top, and got 31,088 kbytes. Now you've got me wondering. What does ps -axl say? i'll try that.. unfortunately I rebooted the machine.. so lemme try it again sarang rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W -- - Sarang Lakare http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~lsarang http://www.linux.org
