Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Memory usage....

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 09/23/2003 05:18:21 PM "Dean Nedelman" wrote:
>[Using the 09-21 release...]
>
>I have a pretty simple setup: IPtables, DHCP, and Postfix (only used f=
or
>outgoing).  The machine I run this on is a Pentium II 400Mhz with 64MB=

>of
>memory.
>
>When I run procinfo (after the machine has been up and running, it
>tells me
>for memory that there is 61112 Total, 57244 Used, and 3868 Free.  (It
>also
>indicates [if it is important] 1080 for Buffers and 46440 for Cached.)=


The amount used by "cached"  is also available.

>When I run df, I see:
>Filesystem       1K-blocks   Used  Available
>Use% Mounted on
>...
>shmfs                  41943040    19560
>41923480   1%    /shm
>
>Now, here are my questions:
>o If I'm reading the df output correctly, does that say it is using 41=

>GIGABYTES for shmfs?
>o Do we potentially have the shmfs incorrectly sized?  Would that retu=
rn
>additional free space?

That's the beaty of SHMFS, it only uses as much as it really needs.
The 41 GB are only the maximum size, but we could try reducing the valu=
e to
i.e. 1GB.

>Note: My goal is to enable ClamAV and SAGATOR.  When I tried it, I ran=

>out
>of memory.

ClamAV shouldn't be a problem. Enable it and check the memory usage.

Sagator uses a CHROOT which actually eats up RAM. I can't tell you how
muchl but when you remind me on the weekend, then I can check on my ser=
ver.

cya
  Heiko
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