[Babase] Re: Papio memory usage
Hunter Matthews
thm at duke.edu
Thu May 10 11:50:17 EDT 2007
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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