Maybe this is something you're interested in: http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html
This is another emphasis, but generally, there's also "swappiness", and misc related ratios tunable from sysctl or directly via /proc that determine how much is being swapped and how much not. you should search googlw for linux swapping policy etc. regards, Max. On 2/7/06, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Ben-Nes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > All the data is fed as one huge transaction that takes allot of > > memory. > > How much memory? > > > I noticed that one 1GB RAM machine the task cant be completed ( kernel > > kill the process ) > > What exactly happens? Is there anything interesting in the syslog, > such as > > "Out of Memory: Killed process ..." > > or anything of the kind? > > > while on 3GB RAM it can. > > > > The strange thing is that on the 1GB RAM machine the swap is not used > > at all. > > How much swap is there? > > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
