<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 16:25, Chuck Peters <<a href="mailto:cp@axs.org">cp@axs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> root@xen:~# smem<br>
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What utility is that?</blockquote><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.selenic.com/smem/">http://www.selenic.com/smem/</a></div><div>A good article on it is at LWN: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/329458/">http://lwn.net/Articles/329458/</a></div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>It's available in Ubuntu, at least the newer ones, it didn't work with Hardy/8.04 because the kernel wasn't new enough. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It's something I found while searching for a way to estimate our requirements prior to the VPS migration. We had 2GB of RAM and running top and meminfo just didn't give me useful numbers for how much RAM we really needed. smem helped me figure out that if I started tweaking things by running nginx and not running clamav, and perhaps spamassassin, we could probably get by with 512MB. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I wanted to go with Linode 1024, but didn't want to spend that much per month ($40) when the ad revenue we get has been as low as $60 a month. Then I found Tektonic had the 10% off for life so it came to $25.20 a month and used a small 256MB slice at Prgmr for DNS, that comes out to $6.40 a month paying for a year. I have since found a free secondary DNS provider that I think I'll be happy with, so with a 1024MB slice at Prgmr slice it will be $20 a month paying per month, or $16 a month paying for the year, or $28.80 a month with 2048MB paying by year.</div>
<div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chuck</div></div>