Re: [webmin-l] More memory tests

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 12/Dec/2006 16:47 Barry wrote ..
> 
> > That might be OK if it is your intention, or if it just evolved that
> > way, maybe you can live with it - but can you let us know if you
> > can/will make efforts to reel memory usage back in?
> >
> > I suppose I can help you with additional tests ....
> >
> >   
> Jamie - here is a snapshot of top right after a reboot:
> 
> top - 18:43:58 up 2 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
> Tasks:  34 total,   1 running,  33 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 100.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  
> 0.0% si
> Mem:    131072k total,    58840k used,    72232k free,        0k buffers
> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,        0k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 24362 mysql     16   0  132m  24m  29m S  0.0 19.4   0:00.06 mysqld
> 24533 root      16   0 42308  10m  34m S  0.0  7.9   0:00.00 miniserv.pl
> 24507 root      16   0 38824 9732  31m S  0.0  7.4   0:00.00 miniserv.pl
> 24499 apache    18   0 99788 8432  94m S  0.0  6.4   0:00.00 httpd
> 24456 root      16   0 99788 8412  94m S  0.0  6.4   0:00.04 httpd
> 24426 root      16   0 32924 3796  30m S  0.0  2.9   0:00.01 sendmail
> 24440 smmsp     18   0 27796 3116  25m S  0.0  2.4   0:00.00 sendmail
> 25656 root      16   0 25596 2332  24m S  0.0  1.8   0:00.01 sshd
> 25773 root      16   0 25596 2332  24m S  0.0  1.8   0:00.01 sshd
> 25777 barry     16   0 24552 2328  23m S  0.0  1.8   0:00.00 sshd
> 25687 barry     16   0 24552 2320  23m S  0.0  1.8   0:00.00 sshd
> 24373 root      16   0 29860 2184  28m S  0.0  1.7   0:00.00 dovecot-auth
> 24251 root      16   0 21968 2092  21m S  0.0  1.6   0:00.06 sshd
> 24378 dovecot   16   0 14224 1852  13m S  0.0  1.4   0:00.00 imap-login
> 24379 dovecot   16   0 14224 1852  13m S  0.0  1.4   0:00.00 imap-login
> 24380 dovecot   16   0 14224 1848  13m S  0.0  1.4   0:00.00 imap-login
> 24374 dovecot   16   0 14216 1844  13m S  0.0  1.4   0:00.00 pop3-login
> 24375 dovecot   16   0 14216 1844  13m S  0.0  1.4   0:00.00 pop3-login
> 24377 dovecot   16   0 14216 1844  13m S  0.0  1.4   0:00.00 pop3-login
> 24480 root      18   0 20984 1572  20m S  0.0  1.2   0:00.00 saslauthd
> 24485 root      18   0 20984 1572  20m S  0.0  1.2   0:00.00 saslauthd
> 25737 root      16   0  6544 1508 6200 S  0.0  1.2   0:00.00 bash
> 25829 root      16   0  6544 1504 6200 S  0.0  1.1   0:00.00 bash
> 25778 barry     16   0  6548 1408 6200 S  0.0  1.1   0:00.00 bash
> 25693 barry     15   0  6544 1404 6200 S  0.0  1.1   0:00.01 bash
> 24327 root      17   0  6400 1208 6200 S  0.0  0.9   0:00.00 mysqld_safe
> 25732 root      16   0 21844 1180  20m S  0.0  0.9   0:00.00 su
> 25812 root      15   0 21844 1180  20m S  0.0  0.9   0:00.00 su
> 24466 root      16   0  9736 1116 8792 S  0.0  0.9   0:00.00 crond
> 25874 root      16   0  6148 1112 5924 R  0.0  0.8   0:00.03 top
> 24262 root      17   0  8712  916 8336 S  0.0  0.7   0:00.00 xinetd
> 24242 root      16   0  3764  796 3552 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.00 dovecot
>     1 root      16   0  4752  624 4536 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.08 init
> 24232 root      16   0  3632  620 3444 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.00 syslogd
> 
> Even this is not enough memory to add a database to a virtualmin managed
> account (that I could only make earlier when I turned off a bunch of 
> services, including mysql and so the database wasn't made at domain 
> creation time.
> 
> So it looks like you need > 75 MB Ram to do that function ....how much
> more, I don't know.

All I can say is that the smallest machine I've run Webmin/Virtualmin on
lately has 256 MB of RAM ..

 - Jamie