General :: High Memory Utilization By System?
Nov 11, 2009
I have a server running samba process and there are about 70 samba users connected at a time. The system has 4Gb of memory and it seems each samba process is utilizing only 3352Kb of memory.
When I run the command
pmap -d (pid of samba)
It gives as:
b7ffa000 4 rw-s- 0000000000000000 0fd:00003 messages.tdb
bfe46000 1768 rw--- 00000000bfe46000 000:00000 [ stack ]
ffffe000 4 r-x-- 0000000000000000 000:00000 [ anon ]
mapped: 33384K writeable/private: 3352K shared: 20504K
But when I run the top command, it results as below:
Tasks: 163 total, 1 running, 162 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.9% us, 4.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.3% id, 0.8% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 3895444k total, 3163192k used, 732252k free, 352344k buffers
Swap: 2097144k total, 208k used, 2096936k free, 2487636k cached
Why could the system be utilizing such high memory? By the way, the server is not running other processes. The samba version running in it is 3.0.33-0.17.
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Apr 9, 2010
I am getting a strange problem with my new machine (P4 3Ghz, 1 GB RAM DDR333). The machine is an industrial PC. Firstly I had installed Fedora Core 2 on it. It ran superbly without any problem. I tried to load Redhat Enterprise Linux WS4 (Update 2 as well as Update 5) on it. But the PC was giving high CPU utilization for each and every task. With-out any application running both the cores shows utilization around 10 %. But when i try to my application, the CPU utilization in one of the cores goes to 100 % for majority of the time. This is causing my appilcation to run slowly when compared to the same application running on the same machine under fedora core 2. (CPU Utilization around peak 17 % in either of the cores in Fedora Core2) Recently I installed Cent OS 5 on it. But the behavior of the PC remains the same as of Redhat Enterprise Linux WS4. Some-where on the forums I had read about the RAM size. So i tried to downgrade the RAM from 1 GB to 256 MB. But the problem remains the same. I think it has to do with some kernel tweaking.
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Been using Maverick on my Dell Studio XPS for many months without issue. About a week or two ago, compiz has been acting funny and using a lot of cpu time, making everything "choppy," especially after resuming from suspend. I've googled and searched the forum, but all the related posts seem to be several years old.I tried selecting the previous kernel but it didn't help. Was there a bad update to compiz or ati graphics?
My info:
Code:
> lspci | grep VGA
21:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]
> grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf | uniq
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Driver "fglrx"
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Nov 12, 2010
I installed the NVIDIS driver for 64b Linux, and now I face a high cpu utilization (up to 40%) in the XORG when I swith from one application to another. I need the driver because otherwise some web pages are rendered with a something like a watermark
LSPCI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 024f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at f4000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
NVidia driver
260.19.21
uname -r
2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
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Jul 19, 2010
Basically I have a machine with 16GB of RAM and have just discovered that using all of it can crash the whole system over one process. How could I run a process on the system in such a way that if more than 90% of system memory is used, the process immediately crashes?
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Jul 15, 2009
Is there any command to get the memory utilization of a particular process in Linux?I tried with Top and /proc/pid/status commands but the results are not proper, the memory keeps on increasing.Can anyone tell other than Top and /proc/pid/status commands ?
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Oct 21, 2010
I have a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and about 40 ThinClients running LSTP in a school's computer lab. Everytime the users start to use applications, the server's memory utilization increases, while the swap memory is quite free. I have 12GB of memory on that server.
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Sep 8, 2010
I am having a php script which is used for bulk mailing. I run the script every minute through cron job. I have mentioned the path of the php script in a .sh file and execute the .sh file through cron job. Every time i run the script it utilizes high memory which results to server crash. how to restrict memory usage for that process to be a minimum one or how to set priority to be low for that process so that it is executed when there is no high priority jobs, so that the server runs normally without going down when the script runs
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Nov 15, 2010
As we know, the data in /proc/net/dev fall into two categories -- the data received and the data transmitted. Now I want to calculate the network utilization, should the calculate be ---- (datareceived + datatransmitted - datareceivedlasttime - data transmitted last time)/ timeinterval?
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Feb 3, 2011
I have a SSH access to some linux servers, is it possible that I can get some graphical report for system utilization (CPU, memory and disk space) for a given time range.
I dont have any graphical access to the system.
Currently I am fetching the records using "sar -r" command , pasting them in a excel sheet to generate the reports.
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Jul 11, 2010
My problem seems to be very simple, it's high memory usage. I occasionally will use movie player to watch a few shows and I use firefox as well. My memory usage starts out real small about 500 mb but after using firefox lightly and movie player it jumps to almost 2 gigs and this is after they've been closed what gives? I've attached an image so you can see what I'm talking about.
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Apr 30, 2011
I just installed Kubuntu 11.04.
I ran VLC and it brought my PC to a halt.
I attached a picture of memory usage from htop.
Why do you think VLC is using so much system resources?
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I have a kernel module that I am trying to do a phys_to_virt() and then perform a memcpy to the returned virtual address. The problem that I'm having is that my module crashes during the memcpy when trying to do this on a physical address in high memory. Do I need to need to perform some kind a mapping operation on high memory address for this to work?
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Apr 5, 2010
Most of my many Linux installs boot up to a memory use of 170-190 MB with no open or running programs. But with Ubuntu 9.10 it shows; 305-310 MB and the top RAM use item is the; compiz.real, which I think is a display desktop effects application. I have the nvidia video card driver installed, and that nvidia X-Server configuration tool. Also I can not find where that compiz options is at, ( the display options in system, preferances does not open, and says to use my video card tool ).
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Mar 12, 2011
I've installed my debian sid about one month ago (first xfce, next gnome) but noticed that it's kind of really slow. The upgrades take ages, launching (and using) firefox takes so much time,... In comparaison to my ubuntu, archlinux (on the same computer) or previous installation of debian there is clearly a problem somewhere.Today I tried to do a "top" sorted by mem usage : 3.5% xulrunner-stub, 2.1% dropbox, 1.4% aptitude (doing upgrade), 1.4% clementine,... nothing terriblebut still I've 2.7Gb or RAM used (more than 50%)
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3967 26851282 0 79 1938
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May 11, 2011
I upgraded from Fedora 13 to 14 over the network. Everything seems to have worked. The one problem after my install is that I have noticed that setroubleshootd consumes alot of memory.
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It doesn't take long for setroubleshootd to jump in memory usage. I can kill the process but it will start up again. I have tried disabling the service but it doesn't show up in /etc/init.d. # service setroubledshootd stop setroubledshootd: unrecognized service So I am not sure what I can do to resolve the issue with setroubleshootd besides killing it off every 15 minutes.
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Jul 14, 2010
In our database, when checking the memory used using top command, we are always seeing 32 GB RAM utilized. We have set the sga_max_size to 8gb and PGA to 3 gb. We have tried shutting down oracle db and then the memory went down to 24GB when checked using top command. After cold reboot of the DB server, it gone down to 1.5 GB.
But once the users are started using after end of day, the memory again gone back to 32 GB.
Top Command output (truncated)
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top - 15:18:27 up 5 days, 19:43, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.39, 0.32
Tasks: 599 total, 3 running, 596 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.5%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.9%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 32949628k total, 32823336k used, 126292k free, 238808k buffers
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Apr 20, 2011
Is there a system admin tool for RHEL on montioring and logging system memory used and released that can dump to a log file?I'm having an issue with memory not being released when an application is closed. I need to have a tool monitor and log so I can troubleshoot to verify that it's an application not the OS.
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i am having a problem that i would call a bit "important" with my server. so, from last 3 weeks the used space of my hard disk (RAID I) started growing up. i have 2 x 1 tb HDD working on RAID I and i did not install anything those weeks. the space just started changing from 90 GB till 580 GB. now the situation is stable there but i think it's not normal.
the bandwidth usage is low (like 120 gb in 2 months) and i am running 6 counter strike gameservers, a forum, a very little website and some local stuffs... a friend of mine told me that my server could have been hacked but i am afraid it did... some useful informations: when i reboot the server the used space goes down again to ~100 GB and then it starts going up again. i cant really find where all those files are located:
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Jan 5, 2010
I've been having a problem in Ubuntu 9.10 recently where starting about 2 minutes after startup my computer slows down and becomes unresponsive. I believe the problem is associated with a high IOWait because I have the system monitor applet on my Gnome Panel and it displays 100% IOWait every time my system starts to slow down. I have tried booting into other kernel version and the problem persists. I don't really know what IOWait is or how to diagnose this problem further. I've looked around online and it seems like you have to find a specific process that is causing the IOWait, but I don't understand how to go about doing that.
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I have an Ubuntu server running in our small office. Among its many duties is report generation. It uses PHP and DOMPDF (a PHP library for converting HTML/CSS to PDFs for printing). PHP's default memory limit of 32MB is not even close to being enough to pull large amounts of data from the database and generate images/tables/PDFs with that data.
I increased the memory limit to 64MB and that is adequate for reports under 3 pages or so (varies based on table complexity, images, etc). If any user tries to generate a report longer than that, PHP just throws a "out of memory" error and doesn't make the report.
My question is: what are the possible consequences of increasing the memory limit yet again to 128MB or maybe even higher? The server isn't terribly powerful. It has 2GB RAM and 4GB swap space. I know that isn't much but this is a small office and at most I can only see two or three people trying to run reports at the same time. As for security, apache is currently only serving pages in the local network, but sometime within the next year I'll probably have it hosting a public website (currently using a hosting service). Is a high memory limit a potential security risk when exposed to the internet?
EDIT: Sorry, PHP's default memory limit is 16 not 32 as I said. Question still stands, however
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After changing servers and moving things around, I have one system which serves the /home directories, and for some reason, it is extremely slow. I've looked for duplicate IPs, signs of a HW problem, etc. and cannot figure out why the system is running with a high load, high iowaits, and low responsiveness. The servers and clients are slackware 12.2 and 13.1 respectively.
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Apr 10, 2011
After installing reddit, my ubuntu stuck with high cpu usage and system load.
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8634 reddit 20 0 12180 8960 2572 R 12.1 0.9 0:00.51 paster
8611 root 20 0 23756 17m 3816 R 11.8 1.7 0:00.99 paster
8613 reddit 20 0 23200 17m 3908 R 11.8 1.7 0:00.96 paster
8617 reddit 20 0 15072 11m 2688 R 11.8 1.1 0:00.69 paster
8620 reddit 20 0 14372 10m 2680 R 11.8 1.1 0:00.66 paster
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Oct 19, 2010
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and I am experiencing an ultra high memory usage of the gnome-settings-daemon of 2GB after suspend! Killing and restarting the daemon solves the issue. Anybody else with this behavior?
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Feb 18, 2011
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Nov 22, 2010
I was browsing my folder with lots of images, after finished i close nautilus and i notice that my computer became slow, so i'll check it with system monitor and had found that nautilus are using almost 100mb of ram (opening 4 tabs). I'm not sure if this was normal or not because i try to reopen the same folder with pcmanfm and it only consumes less than 20mb of ram (opening 4 tabs).
here's the screenshot from system monitor .
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Feb 21, 2010
I need a Linux distribution which has got drivers for pendrives and could play the music.
What version could you recommend for me?
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Mar 15, 2011
The more context the better. So far it does not look like it has anything to do with memory.
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