[ale] Memory usage questions
Dow Hurst
dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Thu Sep 25 13:18:40 EDT 2003
I don't see anything strange here. Your RSS column shows the actual RAM
resident size of your programs in kilobytes. The man page for ps will
help get more data or explain the columns. What does the install script
want to do?
Dow
nick travis wrote:
>I'm trying to run an install script, but it stops in the middle, the
>machine is a firewall running a mail server and webserver(all internal),
>it looks to me like something is using more memory than is should, the
>box is a P4 2.4 ghz with 512 ram. I'm pasting the output from top
>below, how can I get details about my memory usage? and any idea if
>this would cause the install script to hang?
>
>56 processes: 55 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
>CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.6% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle
>Mem: 512248K av, 452172K used, 60076K free, 0K shrd, 55092K
>buff
>Swap: 1044216K av, 0K used, 1044216K free 342352K
>cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 5 root 19 0 0 0 0 SW 0.2 0.0 0:05 kscand
> 1 root 8 0 484 484 432 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 init
> 2 root 8 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
> 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00
>ksoftirqd_CPU0
> 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
> 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
> 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
> 8 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00
>mdrecoveryd
> 12 root 10 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
> 68 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
> 265 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
> 649 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 eth1
> 707 root 9 0 556 556 480 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd
> 711 root 9 0 448 448 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd
> 728 rpc 9 0 556 556 488 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap
> 747 rpcuser 9 0 752 752 668 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 rpc.statd
> 874 root 13 0 912 912 760 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 xinetd
> 888 root 9 0 1548 1548 980 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 dhcpd
> 926 privoxy 9 0 888 888 668 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 privoxy
> 935 root 9 0 448 448 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 gpm
> 946 root 9 0 8580 8580 5936 S 0.0 1.6 0:00 httpd
> 956 bin 9 0 892 892 568 S 0.0 0.1 0:00
>cannaserver
> 965 root 0 0 600 600 528 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 crond
> 1041 xfs 9 0 4988 4988 884 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 xfs
> 1060 daemon 9 0 556 556 496 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 atd
> 1070 root 8 0 556 556 508 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 rhnsd
> 1176 root 9 0 420 420 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
> 1177 root 9 0 420 420 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
> 1178 root 9 0 420 420 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
> 1179 root 9 0 420 420 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
> 1180 root 9 0 420 420 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
> 1181 root 9 0 420 420 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty
> 1325 ed 9 0 2084 2080 1604 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 imapd
>
>
>Thanks
>Nick
>
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