Ok. Good to know. Will let them know... Thanks.
-Roman Steve Bergman schrieb: > I'm sure your app is using nowhere near that. (God save us from > hosting providers who think that you can put a definite number on > memory usage under an OS that handles virtual memory, lazy allocation, > and shared memory well, as Unixes do; I'm going to assume the OS is > Linux for the purpose of this post just because I'm most familiar with > it.) > > I just spot checked my current app and it was "using" 159MB of virtual > memory. This is what most people look at, which is sad because it is a > nearly meaningless number. It is the amount of memory that your app > has said that is *might* use. More useful is the resident set. > (Sometimes labeled RES or RSS.) That same app has a resident set of > only 15MB. Apps almost never use anywhere near all the memory that > they say they might. (This could actually be a problem if your provider > has disabled memory overcommit, but otherwise, not really.) > > In addition, this app shows that about 3MB is shared with other apps. > I have almost nothing in the swap on this machine, so I can say that > if I killed this app, I'd be freeing up about 15mb - 3mb = 12mb of > memory. And that sounds a lot less "impressive" than the 159mb that it > is "using". > > The command that you provide shows the virtual memory. > > I should say that it is my understanding that Windows does not do > shared memory very efficiently, but I'm sure it still does lazy > allocation, which is most significant in my example app's case, and > probably yours too. (I should also say that I am pretty unfamiliar with > Windows' VM.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
