[ale] Memory usage questions

Nick Travis linuxnews at wormfishin.com
Mon Sep 29 07:05:35 EDT 2003


it was the MailScanner install script, I did the unthinkable and rebooted
the machine, my memory usage was less than half of what it was previously
and the script worked fine after that.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dow Hurst" <dhurst at kennesaw.edu>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Memory usage questions


> 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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