[TriLUG] Memory Monitor on a Redhat system

[Tom Le]

I got java at the top with 7.4 %MEM and after that are all oracle
ranging from 0.9 - 6%MEM.
I've also noticed most of the memory is cached, and the
gnome-system-monitor command shows plenty of free memory.

Tom


On 3/29/07, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> just out of curiosity...what do you get when you run top and sort by
> memory usage (M)?
>
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> William Sutton
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>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Tom Le wrote:
>
> > We are having problems with memory usage on a Redhat AS 4 - on a
> > 64-bit Power PC IBM pSeries. We was wondering if there is a reliable
> > package to monitor memory usage on the server. Our current problem is
> > that the system memory is 95% capacity and we have no idea what is
> > taking up all the memory. We are certain that oracle is using 1G out
> > of 16G of the box, and one instance of jboss is set to use max 1G of
> > memory. We are trying to add a second instance of jboss and it won't
> > start due to insufficient memory. We need a package or a way to drill
> > down to what application using how much memory on the server
> > Any suggestion is appreciated.
> >
> > Tom
> >
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