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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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How HP Prolient Ubuntu server 11.0 support 4 gb
I have upgraded the server ram to 4+4= 8 gb, but after the physical installation, I restarted the server and when it came to the login prompt, it showed only 2+2 = 4 gb.
Please Help.
Thanks
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Ubuntu Server: Intel Driver Uses Lots of RAM
I have tried installing Squeeze, Lucid and Oneiric on my new dedicated server (The host doesn't have Precise yet), and noticed that on fresh install they have very different memory usages.
On Lucid ...
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Memory limiting solutions for greedy applications that can crash OS?
I use my computer for scientific programming. It has a healthy 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap space. Often, as my problems have gotten larger, I exceed all of the available RAM. Rather than crashing ...
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How to configure how much RAM usage should to start swapping on Ubuntu
I always notice that Ubuntu start using swap, as soon as the RAM usage is around 60-70%.
How to configure it so it should wait so RAM usage became 80-90%.
And is there a way to empty the swap, as soon ...
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OS only reports 4.1GB of RAM and not the 6GB that is installed… why?
My ubuntu 64-bit 11.10 installed box has 6GB RAM but Ubuntu only uses 4.1GB.
I have read various things about the 4GB limit etc, but all those talk about using less than 4GB.
What could be causing ...
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How to stop the Unity Desktop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does one exit the X server?
I would like to shutdown the graphical interface and every related graphical application on my Ubuntu 11.10 (with 4 GiB memory and 4 GiB ...
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Is memory leak a common phenomenon for gnome-shell? [closed]
Everyone says that gnome-shell uses much less memory than unity shell. But I find it is true only for a short period time.
Under Ubuntu 11.10, gnome-shell 3.2, the cron "gnome-shell" uses about ...
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Premature Termination of Processes
I sometimes find that when I run a process that I know uses up a great deal of system resources, it terminates unexpectedly. Is this because it becomes unresponsive, or is it because Ubuntu can't ...
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Where has all the RAM gone?
I have 1GB of RAM, and when I run NetBeans and Firefox, they get about 300MB of RAM. At some point, the system becomes very slow, probably 100 times slower than normal, switching windows (Alt+Tab) ...
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Moving files to /dev/shm ramdisk doesn't increase RAM usage?
I've been wanting to make us of a ramdisk on my Ubuntu system for a while, and have done a bit of reading online. Most of the advice centres around using /dev/shm to move files into RAM.
I wanted to ...
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what is the nm-applet and why does it take so much memory?
I was wondering why my memory useage was so high, what is this thing that take a whopping 1.2GB of memory.
Please and thank you.
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Can I use all my RAM for application data?
I have yet another question about "where is my Linux memory"
Question goes: can I use cache for application data?
On my laptop I have 1GB ram. Situation after some time of work: browser takes 400MB ...
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How can I monitor the memory usage?
I have used top to see the memory usage at the moment. But I would like to monitor the memory usage over a period of time. E.g start monitoring and then execute a few commands, and final stop the ...
