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Is 32GB RAM just massive overkill? [closed]
I have 32GB RAM in a computer. From what I can tell, I don't even come close to using that much RAM. Windows task manager indicates I don't even use 4GB.
Am building another computer and tempted to ...
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Disk and Ram Memory size
I need to know the disk size and the ram size of LAMP + Chrome. How can I check it... on ubuntu 11.x and 12.x
Thanks
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Ubuntu 13.04 memory usage doesn't add up over time
The memory usage on my Ubuntu 13.04 system doesn't add up over time. I've tried the 3.8.0-xx kernels and the latest 3.9 from /~kernel-ppa/mainline.
When I first boot, it all adds up correctly but ...
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How can I find the memory usage on my GPU?
Previously I was checking it with
nvidia-settings -q all | grep Memory
I'm processing some scientific data on my GPU with numpy and theano. I was doing this with the gnome desktop running, and ...
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Server slowly runs out of memory [duplicate]
My Ubuntu 10.04 server slowly eats up memory. If you look at tops, it slowly starts using swap space. Eventually the amount of free memory drops too low and the kernel kills the worst process.
A ...
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How to log memory usage per minute on Ubuntu Server?
I checked few programs such as htop or top command but couldn't find any features for logging per minute.
Is there a way to do that for tracking memory issues ?
edit: I was using linode and decided ...
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Looking to log memory usage and cpu usage every x interval on a box
I am looking to monitor memory and cpu usage on the box every minute or so. Any recommended ways on doing this?
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top command not clear [closed]
I am using top command on my centos server.
Mem: 8055100k total, 3832228k used, 4222872k free, 57968k buffers
Swap: 8191992k total, 0k used, 8191992k free, 3574740k cached
In case ...
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Chrome suddenly using too much memory, what's wrong?
I just upgraded my RAM to double what it used to have and for a couple of weeks everything was running great, but now Chrome is eating all of it, I hit 90% use with only one window and <50 tabs ...
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Why do I run out of memory even when nothing is running?
I am currently facing a problem that when I run Uclust, it keeps showing me mymalloc running ot of memory. The thing is that cuurently nothing is running in the system and my memory shows I am ...
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2 GB Ram, but Ubuntu runs slowly and hangs if doing too much
I think my system more than meets the minimum/recommended requirements for Ubuntu, but its still running slowly. Especially when I try to multitask by having 4-6 windows open, then it becomes quite ...
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Does 64bit ubuntu takes more memory than 32bit or is “quantal” more demanding than “precise”?
I've just clean-installed 12.10 64bit and i noticed an increase in memory usage. I used 12.04 32bit and was running about ~400mb on startup(gnome3 no effects) + firefox, now the machine uses about ...
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Warning when available RAM approaches zero
This is a follow-up to Memory limiting solutions for greedy applications that can crash OS?: ulimit and cgroups are not user friendly, and besides, wouldn't work with applications that spawn separate ...
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Fresh ubuntu installation - memory usage went from 3% to 41% - should I be concerned and how to remedy?
My memory usage was a 4% after a fresh ubuntu 12.10 installation
after i install php packages etc using this gist, https://gist.github.com/4372049
my memory usage now reached 41%.
should i be ...
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Memory allocation issue
I regularly code in C/C++. Today while compiling a program. it returned "KILLED". I believe it is because of memory management issues. I use dynamic allocation very rarely so its highly unlikely that ...
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How to prevent so many instances of apt-check running?
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server that just crashed because of a very obvious cause: 30+ of apt-check processes consuming all memory, the OOM killer kicking in, killing vital services. I'm not sure where ...
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Dbuses and Apaches are using up memory
I recently noticed, in System Monitor, that multiple Apache2 processes are showing up (with the same "Command Line"). There are currently 6 of them, each with 7MB memory. I also noticed a whole bunch ...
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Average memory usage after complete ubuntu 12.04 start up
When it starts up completely, I cas see that about 400-500MB of my 2GB Ram is being used.
Right now that I have only started Firefox (and System monitor), I can see that about 1GB of ram is full with ...
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Is it normal that Xubuntu 12.10 uses as much RAM as Ubuntu with Unity? [closed]
I just installed Xubuntu along with Ubuntu 12.10 on a laptop and to my surprise, the amount of RAM reclaimed with no applications running (except terminal with free -m) is around 300MB. I know the ...
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Move WUBI installation of Ubuntu to a different partition in Windows
I don't have a lot of space on my D: drive and Ubuntu is taking 15 gigs of it so I wonder, is there a way of moving Ubuntu from D: to C: while keeping the files that exists on Ubuntu?
Thanks
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Reduce memory usage
I have just installed the standard default desktop configuration of Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal). My PC only has 1GB of RAM and is struggling a little. What steps can I take to reduce the memory ...
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How to read correctly “free -m” output?
The output of free -m:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 595 482 112 0 63 324
-/+ ...
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How to see how much memory/cpu Unity is using
I am trying to see how much memory and CPU the whole Unity desktop is using. For this I tried looking at the Unity process but since it is divided in many parts it became difficult. I want to see how ...
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Compiz's memory utilization increasing
I have been running Ubuntu 12.04, 64 bit, on my AMD desktop for quite some time. Last few days, I have been seeing the memory utilization of compiz to be increasing. I normally do not shut down the ...
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How do I throttle a command in a terminal window?
I needed to run convert with a lot of images at the same time. The command took quite a while but this doesn't bother me.
The issue is that this command rendered my computer unusable while the ...
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How to know each TAB memory usage ?
Hi, is it possible to know that, if Firefox or any browser is opened, whats the amount of memory taken up by each TAB of web-browser ?
I am just curious to know.
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Software to track application profile
I am developing a software for number theory investigation, and I am suspicious that is leaking memory.
It would be very nice to log the CPU, and RAM usage of this program through some application. ...
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Is Chromium GTK+ theme lighter than the others?
Or is it heavier? What other aspects could one consider here beside aesthetics?
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Why is my /dev/loop0 showing full?
I have sufficent memory , but somehow I get my /dev/loop0 showing usage of 9 GB
here's my df-h.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 12G 10G 1.4G 88% /
udev ...
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Where is my ram?
I have 2GB installed on my machine running Ubuntu 12.04. After some time of use, I see much of my RAM used. The RAM does not free enough even though I closed all my programs.
I included 2 ...
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How to move packages from the live image to a pool on the disc?
Currently I'm using UCK and trying to make Edubuntu 12.04.1 DVD launch installer on 256Mb RAM: How to install Edubuntu on a system with low memory (256 Mb)?
I was reading release notes for 12.10 and ...
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Ubuntu not displaying full 4GB memory on 64bit installation! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does Ubuntu only show 3GB of RAM?
My Ubuntu install is no using 100% of the memory installed.
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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Used memory in Linux? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I monitor the memory usage?
I see in System Monitor, used memory only 332MB, so free memory is ~3.4GB, but when I use command line: free -m, used memory is 1GB, ...
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Normal RAM usage for Ubuntu 12.04 + Unity?
My system is Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit + Unity and it uses ~480Mb with no other processes-apps open, just the core system. Is this the expected amount? It seems a bit steep to me but perhaps this is normal ...
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Is it worth upgrading RAM? [closed]
I'm thinking about upgrading my RAM from 1GB to 2 or 4 GB. I would like to have some idea as to whether buying more RAM would be worth the expense. How can I know whether I will see better ...
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What is process “/usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none”?
I am experiencing some serious performance issues with my Ubuntu 12.04 setup and thus looking for the culprit by running htop alongside my usual tasks.
Aside from the usual suspects like chromium, ...
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What can I do to make Unity more memory-efficient?
I realy love Unity, but the most of the time I have to use gnome-shell because I only have 1.5 GB of RAM and when I work I have to use all these apps: fogger, firefox, compiz efects, empathy, gwibber ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 - polkitd using 7GB of memory
We have a production web server running Ubuntu 12.04. We have a total of 24GB of RAM installed into the system. The problem is that our process list is showing polkitd as using 6.8 GB of memory. I've ...
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Why does my application crash without updating the log file (used '> my.log')
I am running mCruiseOn Server, which is a java based server side application (sockets, multiple threads, memcached, mysql) on a Micro EC2. It has been crashing often. I suspect memory usage may have ...
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Why does apache keep running out of memory?
All the time my apache2 runs out of memory, I have 6 sites running on it.
My server specs are:
2 gig ram, 6 core processor, 60 gb hard drive, and a 1000 mb/s how can I sort the problem out? it ...
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ubuntu hangs when running jboss & eclipse & need a cold reboot [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 with jboss-4.0.3, eclipse, helios, and JDK 6 (jdk1.6.0_31).
I am using a Core i3 processor and 4 GB of RAM.
When I start Eclipse and jBoss they use almost all my memory. When ...
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Heavy HD activity on memory issue
I have turned off swapping on my Ubuntu setup - it was causing heavy I/O and slowing things down. I'm okay working without the swap and using only the 4GB of RAM I have (computer doesn't support more ...
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How to make Ubuntu 32 bit read my 4GB RAM on a Acer Travelmate 3210 notebook?
I have Acer Travelmate 3210 notebook with 4GB RAM, but after I install Ubuntu 32bit Desktop, Ubuntu says my RAM is only 2GB.
How to make Ubuntu use all my RAM? My notebook doesn't seem to support ...
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memory usage doesn't add up [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get the actual used memory including RAM disks?
If I add up all the memory usage I get from top -b -n 1 or htop or ps aux, I get a number that is a few GB under ...
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Why is swap being used even though I have plenty of free RAM?
I thought the whole essence of swap was to act as a temporary storage safety net when RAM was full but my swap partition is constantly being used even though I sometimes have as much as 3GB free RAM. ...
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My Right-Click Properties option in Root File System shows 140.8 TB memory of Contents
Partly it is a Curious question . ( Pretty stupid though)
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 64-Bit system with Unity as DE.
I was doing a routine to free -up some memory space by manual deletion of unwanted ...
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Why don't the %MEM values in top add up to the total used memory?
I'm currently debugging performance issues with my VPS and for that I'm trying to understand which of the processes eat the most memory. Reading top, here's what I get:
Mem: 366544k total, ...
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rhythmbox-scope consuming lots of memory
I've noticed that rhythmbox-scope for unity-hud's music-lens is taking something above 18% of my memory all the time without doing anything useful.
Actually using it for searching music doesn't ...
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Virtual Memory Usage
Using a Toshiba Satellite l645d s4025 amd dual core p320 2.1ghz 3gb ddr3 ram 250 gb hdd
Below is the incomplete top report(don't know how to select all to copy) Using an Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 ...
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Is there an application that can show memory usage in a similar manner to top?
I would like to leave an application running in my terminal that shows me the memory usage, similar to how top shows CPU and other info, and iotop shows the top I/O users.
Does such an application ...
