can you please explain my first ques:<br><br>1. Is there any benefit of increasing the value of PKG_MEM_POOL_SIZE and SHM_MEM_SIZE ?<br><br>/*used only if PKG_MALLOC is defined*/<br>#define PKG_MEM_POOL_SIZE 1024*1024<br>
<br>/*used if SH_MEM is defined*/<br>#define SHM_MEM_SIZE 32<br><br>thanks<br>arun<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Morgan Gilroy</b> <<a href="mailto:morgan@telappliant.com">
morgan@telappliant.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="#0000ff" vlink="#0000ff"><div><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">If you use `free –m` it shows the amount of memory in mega bytes, should be easier to read.
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Mem:</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080"> Total: total memory in your system</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080"> Used: Memory used by all processes and disk cache etc..</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">
Free: memory that is not being used at all</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">(ignore the others as they are no longer used)
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-/+ buffers = same as above except not counting disk cache and other temporary memory usage. This is what is really being used.</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">
</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">Swap: this is the swap space on the disk.</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080"> </span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">When an application requests memory it first gets memory from the free memory, if there is not enough then it takes memory from the disk cache and other buffers. The cache is there just to speed up access but it can use a lot of ram.
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Look at `man free` or google if you want a further explanation.</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080"> </span></font></p><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center">
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From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"> Arun Kumar [mailto:<a href="mailto:arunvoip@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
arunvoip@gmail.com</a>] <br><b><span style="font-weight: 700">Sent:</span></b> 20 June 2007 16:09<br><b><span style="font-weight: 700">To:</span></b> Morgan Gilroy<br><b><span style="font-weight: 700">Cc:</span></b> USER;
<a href="mailto:serusers@lists.iptel.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">serusers@lists.iptel.org</a><br><b><span style="font-weight: 700">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Users] regarding memory usage
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<span style="font-size: 12pt"># free<br> total used free shared buffers cached<br> Mem: 2074376 1740724 333652 0 72328 1280192<br> -/+ buffers/cache: 388204 1686172<br> Swap: 2031608 0 2031608 <br><br> can you please explain in brief all the info.
<br><br> thanks<br> arun</span></font></p><div><p><span><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt">On 6/20/07, <b><span style="font-weight: 700">Morgan Gilroy</span></b> <<a href="mailto:morgan@telappliant.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
morgan@telappliant.com </a>> wrote:</span></font></span></p><div link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080"><div><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">The numbers shown for memory usage also include shared memory, ie memory used by multiple processes/threads, these shared areas will be counted multiple times.
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Use `free` to find the real amount of used memory on your server (look at the +/- buffers section)</span></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000080">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: 700">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma"> <a href="mailto:users-bounces@openser.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
users-bounces@openser.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:users-bounces@openser.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">users-bounces@openser.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: 700">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Arun Kumar<br><b><span style="font-weight: 700">Sent:</span></b> 20 June 2007 14:44<br><b><span style="font-weight: 700">To:</span></b> USER; <a href="mailto:serusers@lists.iptel.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
serusers@lists.iptel.org</a><br><b><span style="font-weight: 700">Subject:</span></b> [Users] regarding memory usage</span></font></p></div><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt"> </span></font>
</p><div><span><p><span><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Hi</span></font></span><br><br><span>1. Is there any benefit of increasing the value of PKG_MEM_POOL_SIZE and SHM_MEM_SIZE ? </span>
<br><br><span>/*used only if PKG_MALLOC is defined*/</span><br><span>#define PKG_MEM_POOL_SIZE 1024*1024</span><br><br><span>/*used if SH_MEM is defined*/</span><br><span>#define SHM_MEM_SIZE 32</span><br><br><br><span>2. I've compiled my ser with
</span><br><br><span>#define PKG_MEM_POOL_SIZE 1024*1024*512 </span><br><br><span>ans started using ser -m 100 option with children=4 and listening on two ips</span><br><br><span>when I started memory usages was seems to fine for few days(3-4) less then 1GB but after that nealy
1.7 - 1.8 GB of memory usage and when I do top: </span><br><br><span>16165 root 15 0 617m 54m 36m S 0.3 2.7 0:16.34 ser</span><br><span>16167 root 15 0 617m 54m 36m S 0.3 2.7 0:15.89 ser</span><br><span>16164 root 15 0 617m 54m 36m S
0.3 2.7 0:16.29 ser</span><br><span>16166 root 15 0 617m 54m 36m S 0.7 2.7 0:16.16 ser </span><br><span>16172 root 16 0 617m 53m 35m S 0.0 2.7 0:05.04 ser</span><br><span>16168 root 16 0 617m 52m 34m S 0.0 2.6 0:00.09 ser
</span><br><span>16170 root 16 0 617m 52m 34m S 0.0 2.6 0:00.07 ser</span><br><span>16169 root 16 0 617m 52m 34m S 0.0 2.6 0:00.08 ser</span><br><span>16171 root 16 0 617m 52m 34m S 0.0 2.6 0:00.10 ser</span><br><span>16163 root 16 0 617m 52m 34m S
0.0 2.6 0:00.01 ser</span><br><span>16145 root 25 0 617m 52m 34m S 0.0 2.6 0:07.80 ser</span><br><br><span>it shows 11 instance of ser with above info. If I sum up </span><br><span>617 * 11 = 6787 MB of memory but in my machine I've only 2 GB Physical RAM and it never uses Swap ?
</span><br><span>if 54 * 11 = 594 ? but free -m and top shows more memory usage ?</span><br><br><span>can please explain me in brief . I'll be really thankfull. B'coz of this I'm facing may problem. </span><br>
<br><span>thanks</span><br><br><span>arun</span><br><br><br></p></span></div><p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt">______________________________________________________________________<br>
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