[SR-Users] Memory Question

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 3/15/12 2:17 PM, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Started kamailio with "-m 100 -M 30". Thus I would suspect that every 
> process needs 30MB, and one of the processes needs 30+100Mb as it 
> allocates the shared memory. The further would conclude that the 
> memory will be allocated only once during startup.
>
> Can this be somehow verified? Normal "ps" output shows that every 
> process needs ~130MB virtual memory, but this is probably not what I 
> am looking for.

I am not familiar with what exactly the virtual memory represents in ps, 
but could be the memory size a process can access, which is right (each 
process can access 30M private, plus the 100M shared).

Cheers,
Daniel

>
> Thanks
> Klaus
>
>
> # ps aux
> PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY STAT COMMAND
> 846  0.2  0.8 139732  4112 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 847  0.0  0.2 139732  1188 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 848  0.0  0.2 139732  1184 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 849  0.0  0.2 139732  1184 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 850  0.0  0.2 139732  1184 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 851  0.0  0.2 139732  1220 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 852  0.0  0.2 139732  1208 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 853  0.0  0.2 139736  1032 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 854  0.0  0.2 139732  1176 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 855  0.0  0.2 139732  1392 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 856  0.0  0.2 139732  1392 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 857  0.0  0.2 139732  1392 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 858  0.0  0.2 139732  1392 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
> 859  0.0  0.2 139732  1396 ?   S    kamailio -m 100 -M 30
>
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