Re: [cobalt-users] Memory is being heavily used - Raq4

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AI> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:52:31 +0100
AI> From: Achieve IT


AI> "Total memory on the system is 259308 KB
AI> Free available memory is 3684 KB
AI> Used memory is 255624 KB which is 98 percent of the total memory"

What does "free" tell you?


AI> 9:33am  up 108 days, 23:12,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.09

Well, at least processes don't appear to be blocking, and there
doesn't seem to be page thrash.


AI> 83 processes: 82 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
AI> CPU states:  1.9% user,  5.5% system,  0.0% nice, 92.5% idle
AI> Mem:   127776K av,   86128K used,   41648K free,   93140K shrd,    4984K buff

That's a fair amount of SHMEM use.


AI> Swap:  131532K av,   26820K used,  104712K free                   31056K cached
AI>
AI> Remedies I have tried include, restarting the server and restarting MySQL.

Why would restarting decrease memory use, unless a program has a
memory leak?


AI> My Raq4 has about 50 virtual sites, but most of these would be lightly used.

But if you have bloatware, you still use a good-sized chunk of
memory.


Eddy
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