Re: [Xen-users] Memory problems persist... Cannot allocate memory

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:42:55PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > > 
> > > Looks like dom0 is just about out of memory. It currently has 1 gb of
> > > RAM. Looks like I changed menu.lst on Dec 12 to give it 2 gb of RAM, but
> > > I haven't had a chance to restart it. It's been up for 29 days. It's a
> > > dual quad core machine with 32gb of ram. It will probably run 12-18
> > > domU's when all is said and done ranging anywhere from 512M to 4gb of
> > > ram. Mixed Windows and Linux. Do you think 2gb of ram is enough for dom0
> > > or should I go more, like 3 or 4gb?
> > > 
> > 
> > 2GB definitely should be enough.. afaik.
> > 
> > > "top" gives me:
> > > top - 14:18:13 up 29 days, 17:41,  3 users,  load average: 0.47, 0.77, 
> > > 0.71
> > > Tasks: 302 total,   3 running, 299 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > > Cpu(s):  0.4%us,  0.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.4%id,  0.7%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
> > > 0.4%st
> > > Mem:   1047040k total,  1036656k used,    10384k free,     7816k buffers
> > > Swap:  2104472k total,  2104156k used,      316k free,    53876k cached
> > > 
> > 
> > So what's eating all the memory and swap? 
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
> 
> What's the best way to see what's using all the memory and swap?
> 

For example "top", sort by memory usage by pressing shift+m.
Or just the usual "ps aux" output.

-- Pasi


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