I need to allocate a % of the total system memory for a buffer but what is the best method to determine how much memory is in the system? So far the only way I have found is to get the pages of memory:
Code:
long sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES)
Is that the only option?
I would like to know if there is a linux command to verify the amount of memory used by a program. The programs I am using were compiled with gfortran.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to calculate the total amount of memory used by the system, Someone please confirm if the below formula is correct.Quote:
((memUsed-mebBuffers-memCached)*100)/memUsed => totalMemoryUsed%
Code:
free -o
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8167004 8115292 51712 0 87680 1444676
Swap: 8388584 3252996 5135588
((8115292-87680-1444676)*100/8115292) => 81%
As per the above calculation 81% of memory is used.Is this correct? and if so Am I running out of memory?what is the limit in % that I should maintain for a better performance?
I am trying to understand a large amount of allocated memory that seems not to be accounted for on my system.I'll say up front that I am discussing memory usage without cache and buffers, 'cause I know that misunderstanding comes up a lot.I am in a KDE 4.3 desktop (Kubuntu 9.10), using a number of java apps like Eclipse that tend to eat up a lot of memory.after a few days, even if I quit most apps, 1 gb of ram remains allocated (out of 2 gb).this appeared excessive, and I took the time to add up all values of the RES column in htop (for all users).the result was about 1/2 gb.am I trying to match the wrong values?or could some memory be allocated and not show up in the process list?this is the output of free
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2055456 1940264 115192 0 123864 702900
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I am trying to write a script to calculate the total amount of installed memory to use during an anaconda kickscript, so the swap file is created at 2 x the installed memory. I so far have the amount of installed RAM DIMMS but need a way to total them up and produce a varible I can use in the pre section of the install.
Code:
dmidecode -t 17 | grep Size | awk ' { print $2 }'
Output:
2048
2048
Note: on some servers there could be from 1 DIMM up to 16 DIMMS installed so the script needs to be able to handle this. I also can not use bc as it does not exist during the install stage. I am guessing I need a while loop to do this and use expr but do not know where to start for this logic.
Fedora 14 xfce
HP Mini 210
I am looking to buy some memory for my netbook. Currently I have 1 GB of DDR3 memory. However, the specification says that 2 GB of memory is the max. However, when I do the following it says that 4GB is the max:
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I am trying to figure out how i would go about finding out where system call is made and error checking is not done. I have code below, if somebody can point me in the right direction where system call is made but error checking is not done.Quote:
#include "shell.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
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On a new box with Debian Lenny, I have 2x2 gig of ddr2 but the karamba applet show only 3291mb. And dmesg show this:
Code:
dmesg | grep Memory
[0.004000] Memory: 3362976k/4194304k available (1769k kernel code, 43092k reserved, 752k data, 244k init, 2489792k highmem)
as you should see, top is indicating 3.544.864kb (3.5Gb) of memory used while gnome system monitor only 609Mb. What's wrong here? (I am pretty sure Gnome SM is right. Top is updating every sec.)
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I run ardour sound editing I get this message , but it starts ok Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory! This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs out of memory. You can view the memory limit with 'ulimit -l', and it is normally controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf
bash-4.1$ ulimit -l
64
my limits.conf is like this
audio - rtprio 99
@audio - memlock 250000
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My problem is I installed Zone Minder for camera security and I'm testing it on my laptop with the built in webcam and everything seems to work perfectly except when I try to view the live feed from the camera, it's just a black box. No video.
I checked this website and it's exactly the problem I'm having with a fix for it but his fix doesn't work. He says to type:
Code:
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo echo "256000000" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo service apache2 restart
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo service zoneminder restart
But when I do the first line, I get this:
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deemar@Clementine:~$ sudo echo "256000000" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
bash: /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax: Permission denied
I need to monitor the amount of free physical memory on Linux from within a large C program. The sampling will occur very frequently, so the measurement cannot be performance intensive. The fact that Linux uses much of the theoretically free memory for cache and buffers means that just measuring the free pages is not sufficient. Using free + cache + buffers gives an overestimate as not all cache/buffers can be freed, but I could get a rough idea of how much generally can't and subtract that from the answer.
Possible options that I've come across so far are: Parsing /proc/meminfo - but that involves reading from file which is slow. Extracting the free, cache and buffers values from the output of the Free command - but is there a quick way to do this? Parsing the /proc/freemem file produced by the API here - but this is again reading from file. Is there a way to get that output directly? Speed is an extremely high priority, and the answer it must accurately represent the amount of memory that my program could expand into (to within a few Mb).
Is there any prorgam for checking USB Flash memory for errors, defects, bad clusters, etc...?Like MemTest86+ for RAM, but to check USB Flash-drives.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a few multi-user servers in an academic laboratory. I am having a problem with some users maxing out the available RAM, causing such sever slowdowns the machine essentially crashes. My servers are Dell Power Edge's running Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition (Not my choice). I would like to set a maximum limit on the amount of ram a user can utilize. This morning I experimented with setting limits via /etc/security/limits.conf and using ulimit. Neither of them prevented my test program, a simple infinite loop of mallocs, from crashing the server.
View 7 Replies View RelatedFresh install of Debian 6.0 (squeeze) and the memory shows 3.8 GB. I have 6 sticks of 2 gb on the board.
Pertinent dmesg lines: AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
3083MB HIGHMEM available.
883MB LOWMEM available.
Bios tests 12 gb of ram fine.
How to get output of text file containing account number, debit amount, credit amount,date using shell script?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am new to C and linux. My code below does arbitary writes but I cant figure out where or how it does it.
I am calling the insertNode() function with seq = 'MISSISSPPI$' and alphabets = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$'
Code:
Weird behaviour I should mention is that when I check for NULL pointer in node->child[index], the unassigned values are not null anymore, they point to arbitary memory.
How do I write a script for my Linux that can show me total memory vs used memory and have it email me results if it's over 70 percent?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs that possible that SHM shared memory is counted as cache memory on Linux with kernel 2.6.18?If find it really odd since this memory is not file backed, but I have a piece of code that loads data using shm_open+mmap, and it generates an amount of cache memory in /proc/meminfo that corresponds exactly to the amount of shared memory (I load that data from a file but I am using posix_fadvise(fd,0,0,POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) to ensure this file is not cached and I made sure that it is working as expected). As far as I know SHM memory was not tagged as cache memory with kernel 2.6.9.If it is the case it is really unfortunate since normally cache memory can be considered to be part of the "available" memory since it can be flushed promptly but this is clearly not the case with SHM memory... Is there an easy way to get the total amount of used SHM memory on a system?
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I am trying to do a search to check if the input is using alphabets and nothing else.
I tried using [[:digit:]] and [[:alpha:]] but none seems to work
When i use digit, it read 22.k as alphabet and not as a wrong syntax.
For alpha , it does not allow me to input data which has spaces such as " hello world".
@work we use Zabbix and also IP-audit for monitoring. Each day we have a list of outgoing SMTP-servers on our IPaudit server.
This script will take that list and check them all against a whole bunch of DNSBL's
# cat /usr/local/sbin/check_rbl
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#####################################################
# check_rbl
#####################################################
# 17-12-2010 by JP van Melis
#
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what i am trying to do is to allow the user to key in data such as "23.23" or "24" , as it is the price of certain objectsHow am i able to design a check which will allow me to prevent users from typing in input such as "ab.21" or "rfrr" as this field is purely a numerical field. The problem i am facing is i tried using this search code.
Code:
echo "read this"
read this
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I'm new to C language and some help finding places in the following code where a system call is made and error checking is not done. I found one but since I don't know C language at all I'm not exactly sure what else to look for. Link to my file: [URL]...
I found one and added error checking:
if (setoutpipe){
//Changes: Added error checking to the system call close()
//Orginal Code: close(pidefd[1]);
if(close(pipefd[1] != 0){
fprintf(stderr, "Could not close piple.
");
exit(255);
}
I run my own icecast2 server. In the near future it looks like, I will be doing some shows. I would like to beable to change my link, so if I am broadcasting, to go to the stream if not pop a box for my schedule.Now from when I was checking to see if my webcam was up or not, i used this.does anyone know haw to change my code for this? I know when I'm not stream it generates a 404 error, in winamp (on windows)
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have to write a program which checks the information inside a text file to make sure it is all integers and then convert the integers to roman Numerals. My program seems to have a bit of a problem and im not sure where exactly the problem is....
Code:
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string>
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