I 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 RepliesIs there any program which gets the CPU and memory of a process ?
View 1 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 RelatedI 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 am using malloc and frees a lot in my program. It shows its allocated but when i remove it doesnt show as the memory is removed(I am using the top command to view VIRT memory usage). If this continously grows what would happen to my program (Will it go out of memory?)
View 4 Replies View Relatedwe found that if we use 'top' to show the memory usage of a server (SuSe Linux 10), we can get virtual memory usage as well as 'Resident memory' usage. For virtual mem or a particular process, it is around 1.1GB, which is large but for resident memory, it only consumes 300MB. Are there anyone who knows what the differences are? I would also like to know whether the difference (1.1GB - 300MB) = 800MB are actually available for use by other applications in the system.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a query regarding top & virtual memory. When we run top it show VIRT (Virtual Mem), RES (Resident Mem) & SHR (Shared Memory). The total virtual memory of my machine is 4 GBs (2 GB RAM + 2 GB Swap), but still I am able to see a process showing 4000m virtual memory column. what it means, as its show VIRT Mem more than actual available VIRT memory
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat command would I use with Top to sort what is displayed when typing top to see the virual memory in a vm? So I am currently running ubunut 10.10 in a vm and I want to run top and display the virtual memory, what sort command would I include with top?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to find something like `time' command:$ magic_command ./executable...memory peak: 100kb
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to set up an older computer for a friend that does not have one I've been using Ubuntu for a little over a year on a couple of systems, and this is the first time I have come across an issue I could not find an answer to. During the boot sequence, and right before the GUI, I'm getting a "Low Graphics Mode" warning and it tells me that the "Virtual screen too big for memory; 5120k needed, 4096 K available" then it gives me some options, and the only one that seems to lead me anywhere is the "Load Ububntu in low res mode this once" Ironically, once the Ubuntu GUI is booted up, the screen resolution is fine (1280x1024 actually - but it is an unknown monitor) This happens every time I re-boot the system and is more of an annoyance then anything else, but since its to be a gift I'd like to get rid of this error message.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI used to use server 64, and it handled memory well with Jaunty and Karmic but with Lucid the memory usage is always high and can't run virtual machines.
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Wine is useless on one of my computers running lucid 32bits. If i try to run a program through wine or even winecfg I get the error:
wine: virtual memory exhausted
I have tried shredding all the files in the .wine directory, removing every package that have anything with wine in their name in synaptic, and sudo aptitude purge wine.
I need a command that can get the memory consumption of a process called "job_runner_o".
Running ubuntu 10.10
I 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.
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 Replies View RelatedI 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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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 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 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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I have a Red Hat 5.3 virtual machine that has 3GB memory. I just upgraded the memory to 4GB, however when I run free -m it still only recognizes 3GB. Is there something else I need to do?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm still pretty new to the linux scene but kubuntu has been a great alternative to ubuntu (unity, ugh) until now.
It only started happening since i started messing around with play on linux but i dont think their related. I dont think its a driver issue either as ive switched between proprietary and default to no avail.
Basically after i log in, it takes over 3-6 minutes getting slower and slower before finally getting back to regular speed. So after a few occurences i decided that immediately after startup i went to system monitor and sure enough;
There is a process title "akonadi_contact" that is slowly growing in memory. There are also multiple occurences of it (usually between 6 and 9). they keep growing usually to the 500000k mark in memory usage before turning gray (swap storage??) and then eventualy the end.
What is "akonadi_contact"
How do i stop this from happening.
Is this a memory leak?