[Babase] Re: Papio memory usage
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Thu May 10 14:37:50 EDT 2007
Thanks Hunter,
I am very happy to buy more RAM. Karl's concern is that this is not
our problem and won't solve it. He'd like to talk to you tomorrow
(Friday). What is a good time?
Susan
On May 10, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> I'll increase swap tomorrow if you really want me to, but may I please
> make the case that
> a) hardware is relatively cheap
> b) science is hard
> c) programmers and grad students time is relatively expensive?
>
> papio has _at_least_ two ram slots free, and a ram upgrade to 4GB
> would
> cost only $199 at crucial.com
>
> (papio is a 2850 model dell poweredge, for reference)
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:39 +0000, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> Hi Hunter,
>>
>> I read the units wrong. Papio has almost 2G of swap.
>> Still, that's what it's running out of and I know shared
>> memory has something to do with it.
>>
>> Postgresql has crashed again since I reduced the
>> shared memory requirements. httpd is using
>> lots of memory, and I'm not suprised. It would not
>> hurt for the memory used by httpd to swap out....
>>
>> I'll look at restricting httpd's RAM usage in the meantime.
>>
>>
>> Karl <kop at meme.com>
>> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>
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