I can't tell if it's my system or the software, but I've been running ices-kh35 all day and now my RAM is almost gone. I have 1GB. The same behaivior happened with the ices2 CVS snapshot from three days ago. Here's the output from free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 977 969 8 0 128 626 -/+ buffers/cache: 214 763 Swap: 243 1 242 I don't really know how to read this, but cached looks kind of high. -l[e^2] ------------------------------ http://www.fallingforward.net/ people experimenting with music, art and technology <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Thursday 07 August 2003 14:03, Lee Azzarello wrote:> I can't tell if it's my system or the software, but I've been running > ices-kh35 all day and now my RAM is almost gone. I have 1GB. The same > behaivior happened with the ices2 CVS snapshot from three days ago. > > Here's the output from free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 977 969 8 0 128 626 > -/+ buffers/cache: 214 763 > Swap: 243 1 242 > > I don't really know how to read this, but cached looks kind of high. >These numbers probably don't mean what you think they mean. How much memory is ices2 using (ps or top will be able to tell you). Mike --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 05:03, Lee Azzarello wrote:> I can't tell if it's my system or the software, but I've been running > ices-kh35 all day and now my RAM is almost gone. I have 1GB. The same > behaivior happened with the ices2 CVS snapshot from three days ago. > > Here's the output from free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 977 969 8 0 128 626 > -/+ buffers/cache: 214 763 > Swap: 243 1 242 > > I don't really know how to read this, but cached looks kind of high.In general, linux follows the principal of free memory is bad, so it's very possible that most of the memory will go into the page cache, as Mike mentioned to verify the memory used by a particular process check the ps/top output. karl. <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.