RE: High MEM Usage??
ps aux will display all the processes and the % of memory in use. Greg James -Original Message- From: Kurth Bemis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:37 PM To: Sumith Ail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: High MEM Usage?? At 09:34 AM 2/4/2001, Sumith Ail wrote: try free -m -t... don't freak out about buffers.its just buffers that can be overwritten.. ~kurth Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
Re: High MEM Usage??
At 09:34 AM 2/4/2001, Sumith Ail wrote: try free -m -t... don't freak out about buffers.its just buffers that can be overwritten.. ~kurth Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
High MEM Usage??
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo showscat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920Swap: 1048551424 0 1048551424MemTotal: 517120 kBMemFree: 161280 kBMemShared: 71140 kBBuffers: 293928 kBCached: 24080 kBBigTotal: 0 kBBigFree: 0 kBSwapTotal: 1023976 kBSwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind RegardsSumith
High Mem usage??
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
High Mem usage??
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
High Mem Usage??
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
Re: High MEM Usage??
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. This is really a LUG question, but try `ps auxw' -- "Pascal, n.: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it." - The Chartered Institution of C Programmers
Re: High MEM Usage??
Well, this is hardly a qmail question. It's more a system administration/Linux question. Have you got the 'top' command? Try that? Have you got the 'ps' command? Try that. I don't know about Linux so much, but some Operating Systems use memory that has never had anything placed in it in preference to memory that has had something loaded into it. What that means is that if you run 100 different programs, rather than reuse the one piece of memory for each program, the OS will load in the first program, leave it in memoryt, and load in the next program at the next available piece of memory. Over time this has the effect of using all your memory, but of course the OS is just being smart about caching. That may be all that's happened with your system. Relating to qmail. qmail is a very small consumer of memory and is unlikely to be relevant to any interpretation you are making on this output. Regards. On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:04:47PM +0530, Sumith Ail wrote: Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
Re: High Mem usage??
Er, one copy of this email to the list is more than enough. Three is clearly excessive. Regards. On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:31:44AM -0800, Sumith Ail wrote: Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
RE: High Mem usage??
On 04-Feb-2001 Sumith Ail wrote: There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. This is perfectly normal. Linux stashes as much files as possible into its disk cache. When a process needs more memory, the cache is reduced. Stefaan -- How's it supposed to get the respect of management if you've got just one guy working on the project? It's much more impressive to have a battery of programmers slaving away. -- Jeffrey Hobbs (comp.lang.tcl)
