Memory

top10 processes using moemory

ps auxh | sort -r --key=4 | head -5

Overcommit

• I hade to tune this setting on a high traffic Postgresql server:

vm.overcommit_memory = 2

• 0 (default): as before: guess about how much overcommitment is reasonable,
• 1: never refuse any malloc(),
• 2: be precise about the overcommit

which kind of memory is installed?

lshw -short -C memory

/0/1c/0                              memory     512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1c/1                              memory     512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1c/2                              memory     512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1c/3                              memory     512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1c/4                              memory     512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1c/5                              memory     DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns) [empty]
/0/1c/6                              memory     512MiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1c/7                              memory     DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns) [empty]