Need explanation about low level (like assembly level) memory management? Such as, how does a process acquire more memory, sharing memory among processes, etc. I don't want to know how to use malloc or other library functions, but more along the lines of how an example malloc implementation would acquire memory.
View 3 RepliesI have a computer with 16GB of ram. At the moment, top shows all the RAM is taken, (NOT by cache), but the RAM used by the various processes is very far from 16GB.I have seen this problem several times, but I don't understand what is happening.My only remedy so far has been to reboot the machine.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have had a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 and installed some software after that.Since third some, some process is eating half of my memory.I have checked processes running in system manager but everything is normal.Maximum is consumed by compiz which is about 26 mb, seems very normal.I did restarted my computer several times, and in the start for 5 mins, its fine after that again my cpu fans runs at very fast speed and my one cpu is used up 95 % (I have dual core).Please help me out, this invisible thing is driving me crazy.I am attaching my htop screen shot (sorted by cpu %), now the cpu is not used by completely but fan is still struggling hard and fast.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI need a command that can get the memory consumption of a process called "job_runner_o".
Running ubuntu 10.10
Is there any program which gets the CPU and memory of a process ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been assigned a school project on detecting memory leaks in linux processes. I am reading.. but have found it hard and inefficient to go through the very vast documentation not knowing what to really look for. Could you please give me some guidelines on this subject?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs 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 ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to know, what process for what purpose is using memory in my machine. ps utility with various options seems to give not exactly what i want, i.e. if i sum all the values like RSS, VSZ or some other values related to memory usage, the sum is not equal (even approximately) to what i get using free|grep "buffers/cache".
How can i get this information? Even better, i would like to see contribution of every process, ramdisk, etc. to memory usage.
In linux, how can I display memory usage of each process if i do a 'ps -ef'?I would like to the 'virtual memory', 'res memory', 'shared memory' of each progress. I can get that via 'top', but I want the same info in 'ps -ef ' so that I can pipe the output to 'grep {my process name}'.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running a series of tests for an implementation of a remote pager that sends page faults to other computers in a network. Long story short, I was wondering if there is an easy way to force a process to use virtual memory as oppose to physical RAM so that I can better measure the performance of my implementation against how the system would perform while swapping to the hard drive.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIm using SUSE, i have 31GB of memory Mem: 31908592k total, 31429632k used, 478960k free, 12176k buffers. How do I find out what process are eating up all my memory.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of a linux utility which will prevent all memory in a forked process from being swapped out to disk? I've seen the 'mlockall' call, but hacking the app sounds like overkill.My reason for needing this is that I'm running Windows XP under VirtualBox on my linux netbook, and I'm concerned there are basically two levels of swapping going on, which on a single dinky netbook hard disk isn't
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would like to find something like `time' command:$ magic_command ./executable...memory peak: 100kb
View 2 Replies View RelatedI understand that in linux virtual memory would be the same as swap and I also understand that linux only uses swap when your computer has used all your pc memory. I hope both assumption are right.Can I make a process like firefox use ONLY virtual memory/swap? No access to RAM.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat originally seemed like an easy thing to calculate has given me a big headache. Perhaps someone can help me with my issue. I am trying to find, in particular, how much memory certain application processes are taking. The process always is the same name, main_server, but with an argument to tell it what to do when running as a daemon.
When running the following command against all "main_server" processes, it produces a result in megabytes based on the output of the rss field in 'ps'.
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CALC=0
for ea in
`ps -e -orss=,args= |
sort -b -k1,1n |
pr -TW$COLUMNS |
grep main_server |
grep -v "grep main_server" |
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Currently I am left scratching my head. For capacity planning purposes, it would be nice to know how many more 'main_server' processes could run on the system without causing it to swap. Knowing the buffer and cache usage will go down as running processes demand more memory, I prefer to look at the free memory excluding cache and buffers. However, since 'ps' is reporting the processes are using more memory than free reports is in use without those things, I have no way to know how many more processes the system can support. I played around with different fields in 'ps', such as vsize, size, etc, but with no luck in matching up any numbers.
Is there any link where i can get information about below?
Dirty memory
RSS
PSS
One more?
if a set of process are getting executed in a use case say 50 times. How do one know the memory leak for a particular process?
I use linux and Unix and I want to monitor the memory usage for process. To prevent memory leakage and out of memory of the system. Any command or sytnax , have more better and presentable data than below command about memory usage of one process ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow can I periodically monitor memory usage of a process in linux.Can it be dumped in some file.So that later I can see what was the process behaviour in taking memory.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been looking for a method for a while now that would allow me to access another process's memory without causing it to freeze. But with all of my googling I have found nothing
so, my question is: Is there a way to not lock a process while accessing it's "/proc/[PID]/mem" interface?
Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5
Apache 2.2.3
MySql 5.0.77
PHP 5.3.3
Samba 3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1
Problem: my server eats up all the memory in the box after a few days. My guess is it has something to do with these processes:
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process kslowd00/kslowd001 it eats 60% of my cpu and 15% of my memory ... i can't kill it even as root.this process makes my computer slower than" IBM 704 running fortran programs "... I've faced this process using Fedora 14 and now with Scientific Linux 6(RHEL 6 recompiled) SL 5.5 didn't have this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've written a program for a class that my professor will be testing in various low memory environments to see how it behaves when the program runs out of memory. Is there a way I can simulate the execution in a low memory environment without creating a virtual machine?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to test that a process properly kills itself and restarts when it can't allocate needed memory. One idea I had was to start other memory-consuming processes and hope that OOM killer kills the process being tested, but 1) this isn't quite the same; 2) it may kill other processes instead; 3) since this is an embedded system, I don't have any programs available except for the system under test and BusyBox.Is there a more direct way to ensure that Linux won't allocate memory to a process?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to know if i can increase the memory space allocated for a process manually while the process is running ,,,, and if it is possible how i can do this .
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe had servers that worked fine for years. After updated them to the latest version of CentOS (5.2 with latest updates), they keeps on hanging when being scanned by PCI Verdors (a Credit Card security standard). Basically, the scan causes httpd process to eat up all memory, and the server becomes unresponsive. Normal operations resume after the scan stops for 5, 10 minutes. Output from top looks like the following:
Mem: 1018988k total, 1007168k used, 11820k free, 432k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total, 2096440k used, 0k free, 4528k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13601 apache 16 0 289m 102m 456 D 4.0 10.3 0:15.25 httpd
12836 apache 16 0 330m 101m 232 S 2.4 10.2 0:17.57 httpd
12834 apache 16 0 341m 100m 292 D 8.9 10.1 0:17.70 httpd
12837 apache 16 0 317m 99m 456 D 6.0 10.0 0:17.66 httpd
12839 apache 15 0 327m 97m 232 S 0.0 9.8 0:17.37 httpd
13590 apache 15 0 287m 96m 228 S 0.7 9.7 0:15.18 httpd
12833 apache 15 0 333m 96m 232 S 2.2 9.7 0:17.58 httpd
12835 apache 15 0 322m 95m 232 S 0.4 9.6 0:17.50 httpd
12840 apache 15 0 310m 88m 232 S 6.9 8.9 0:17.34 httpd
12838 apache 15 0 297m 85m 232 S 1.3 8.6 0:16.52 httpd
12831 root 18 0 20644 1360 248 S 1.3 0.1 0:00.27 httpd
I run a memory-hungry process (mkcromfs) which consumes more memory than I have physical memory on my latop, so it is paging and swappin and thrashing all the time and loadavg is about 2 (compcache is already in use with usual swap partition as well), but slowly moving forward (Although I afraid it will finally try to allocate >2GB and crash draining 2 days of thrashing).
When I want to use the laptop for something else, I stop the process, start X server, firefox and other programs. The problem is that when I start Firefox the loadavg jumps to 10 and the system becomes almost unresponsive at all (long time to turn on/off caps lock, slow mouse cursor position updates, slow switching from X server to Linux console, slow login).
The stopped mkcromfs still holds a lot of memory (464.8 MiB and slowly falling) and moves it to swap only when more memory is needed for some other program, which results in a great slowdown.
How to tell the Linux to swap out this process entirely (e.g. I'm not intending to resume it in short term), possibly waking from swap other data? Also it will be useful to be able to specify the exact swap device to swap the given process out (for example, mkcromfs's memory is useless in ramzswap).
Update: Now I just write a 400-600M of data from /dev/erandom to tmpfs and it makes mkcromfs to shrink. Is there more proper way?
I used 9.04 for months and it work fine before restarting my PC. After I restarted my PC, the memory consumption takes up to 4.2 GB after login. However, I cannot find any process that consume such large number of memory.
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I want to allocate the continuous memory larger 128k for DMA process. But i can't used kmalloc() function for allocate the memory larger 128KB. allocate the continuous memory larger 128k for DMA process.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI woukld like to know the kernel command or linux kernel file name where i can get the process actual physical RAM usage in linux version 2.6.21 or hiher version.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am writing a script that tells me which process consumes the most memory in the system this is what I have but I keep getting an error:
#! /bin/bash
# Autor: Jose miguel Colella
# Descripcion: Que proceso consume mas memoria
ps -e -o %mem -o args | sort -k 1 | tail -n2 | head -n1 | cut -d -f 3
I keep getting this message: cut: delimiter mist be a single character