[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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