[lug] Checking memory (more info)

[Hugh Brown]

you can look at memory usage by using top and then sorting by memory
(pushing m, in any event, push h and get a usage list).

You can also use vmstat to do more serious memory profiling on an
overall system basis.

Hugh


John Starkey wrote:
> 
> Sorry. My question below turned into two. So I'm adding more to the
> second.
> 
> I have 3 boxes.
> 
> 233MHz 72Meg w/ 42 gigs of HD
> 333MHz 64Meg w/ 6 gigs
> 100MHz 32Meg w/ 1 gig
> 
> Right now the 233 is serving everything and the 333 is a gnome
> worstation. I wanna move some of the memory hogs in the 233 over to the
> 100 to clear internal mem for a gnome workstation.
> 
> I will be moving the router and firewall over to that machine but I'm
> wondering if there are some other things it can handle efficiently as
> well. I'm really not that convinced that the router/firewall is eating too
> much memory. It appears transparent to me with the net radio cranked and 2
> machines surfing constantly.
> 
> Would the 100MHz die down if I added apache and proftpd to it's list? They
> each will serve a max of about 50 pages a day on heavy traffic days :} and
> some ssh/vi editting. I'm not too sure how the memory is handled. If i
> have 2 httpd's running how much is that eating up?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> John
> 
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, John Starkey wrote:
> 
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I have an el cheapo 200MHz machine here and I wanna use it for some low
> > usage simple processes.
> >
> > What's the best way to find the memory usage of 24x7 processes?
> >
> > I wanna clear the current machines memory for gnome but I don't wanna move
> > the internals.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what I should move to that machine? Would putting
> > apache and proftpd on there and using nfs to get the files defeat the
> > purpose?
> >
> > Also, speed isn't a huge issue. This is just a low usage dev server. At
> > most 5 people are using it at once, mainly ssh/vi/apache.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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