Re: [cobalt-users] Memory utilization on Raq4i?

[Jens Kristian Søgaard <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Patrick,

> climb. When the Raq was restarted, it started at using 64 meg of ram, now
after 2-3 days, it is >using 114 meg ram. We are using the top utility to
track memory
> and processes. I have also compared the top results with the memory usage
tracking from the >Raq admin GUI and the two seem to disagree by a wide
margin.
> Which one should I rely on? Has anybody else seen this behavior before? We
are fully

Certainly rely on top!

The easiest way to track the total RAM usage is to use the free command. It
will show something like this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        517368     247804     269564     307620      58124      30984
-/+ buffers/cache:     158696     358672
Swap:       393668       7912     385756


This may be confusing, but the important cell to be looking at, is the one
in the second row and third column. I.e. the value listed on the row "-/+
buffers/cache" and the column "free". In this example here, the total amount
of free memory is 358672 bytes.

If you then want to see, which process in specific is taking up the RAM,
then start up top and click "M". This will sort the processes according to,
how much memory they use.

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