Questions tagged [memory]
In computing, memory refers to the state information of a computing system, as it is kept active in some physical structure.
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Is there any way around the length limitation in mount options?
Say I create a series of directories in the form "elem_###", where ### are the integers from 001 to 454, like so:
$ dirs=$(seq -felem_%03.0f 454 | tr '\n' ' ')
$ mkdir ${dirs}
I then use these ...
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Disabling “Low GPU Memory” Notification in Gnome
How can I disable the notifications that warn for low available GPU memory? A screenshot is included below.
These are very distracting. As I'm never doing anything GPU demanding, the notifications ...
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Free memory in linux always drops down even if the cache is cleared
I'm maintaining a linux server which manages 100 TPS API traffics.
Initially, it had only 8GB memory. We recently doubled the memory and doubled the JVM memory consumption upper limit as well. Still ...
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Server Information
We have just set up a dedicated-server (Linux / Centos7.7 / WHM/Cpanel)
As it is managed by the hosting-company we are not given access to SSH.
Under Server Information in WHM dashboard the info ...
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ext4 issue on very old machine
I'm trying to install linux on a 20-year old Compaq HP Pavilion ze4300 with 256 MB RAM (I think) without internet connection.
I can boot from CD but not from USB.
Unfortunately I ran into this ...
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Checkpoint (Linux) high memory usage
We have 4 identical Checkpoint boxes, running on Linux.
One of the standby units uses a lot of RAM, but from the looks of it not for buffers/cache.
RAM used by processes seems reasonable, so looking ...
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“DxvkMemoryAllocator: Memory allocation failed” while running any WineHQ dxvk (d3d) game
While running any game, that is too memory hungry, thru Wine (WineHQ) it may completely fill up the RAM memory, before it have time to swap anything, causing this error:
"DxvkMemoryAllocator: Memory ...
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Searching productively in a living process memory
I want to search the memory of a living process for a certain regex and show the results to a file or in the shell - possibly WITHOUT dumping the process to the hard drive, but instead search in the ...
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How to show total memory used by a process AND ALL its children
Just want to see if there is any particular process gobbling up memory. E.g. chrome has a whole tree of chrome processes:
$ pstree 20679
chrome─┬─2*[cat]
├─chrome─┬─chrome─┬─chrome───15*[{...
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Is KDE Neon uses less RAM than Xfce distro?
I've watched on youtube that KDE Neon's memory management is improved and uses less RAM than Xfce distro.
Is it really improved and consume less memory?
So is it worth using KDE Neon over Xfce?
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Android memory manipulating
As root user when i try to modify my own application memory with
ptrace and /proc/$pid/maps and /$pid/mem everything is going well,
But when i try to attach ptrace to process of another application ...
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Missing main memory on Linux
On a new PC with 64 GB of main memory, I can only see about 60 GB, missing a whole 4 GB.
In BIOS all four modules of 16 GB each can be seen, and also that it adds up to the expected 64 GB.
But on ...
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Are there custom memory manager (mm) replacements for Linux kernel?
Are there alternatives to Linux kernel memory manager (mm)?
More specifically, are there companies that develop their own replacements for mm algorithms to suit specific needs such as supercomputing ...
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The vmRSS value of /proc/$pid/status seems not accurate? Why?
I wrote a test program to help me understand the output field of different memory utilities such as free,ps,top,/proc/$pid/status,/proc/$pid/smaps,/proc/$pid/statm etc. One question finally rose up ...
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BIOS-e820 in dmesg - How do I calculate the memory range from addresses
kp@localhost ~]$ sudo dmesg | grep -i "e820"
results in the following output:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem ...
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private memory for specific processes
(assuming root account is not involved in this matter;)
is it possible for two processes to share a piece of memory that only they can access? the best i can think of is to create a dedicated user ...
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can you allocate memory on disk for the life of a process?
How does Linux manage where on disk it will write? I know df gives the number of unused blocks, but how can I get the specific offsets of unused blocks.
More generally, I am wondering if there is a ...
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Linux (RHEL) problem with cached and swap memory
I have a problem with linux cached and swap memory. I know that linux is optimising itself when reading data from the disk (buffering it in the RAM) but in my case it seems that this part of memory is ...
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watch to remember its last zero exit output
I run a process that takes lot of time. Time is not a problem actually but I would like to know how much RAM memory it requires. Process is already running so /usr/bin/time is not an option. I found ...
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how to make program crash deliberately on memory limit exceeding?
I am programming on some OJ search problem. the judgment system told me memory exceeded, so I want to reproduce that on my computer and see whether I can make improvement of mem usage.
my system is ...
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Reliably automatically detect OOM killer post-mortem
I have a misbehaving service which is being repeatedly OOM killed which I would like to better diagnose. It's being called by a wrapper script, so the best first step I can think of is to have the ...
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virtual address translation in Linux
I try to translate a virtual address to a physical address.
I can translate the below address.
00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 103:04 14292394 /home/user/readMaps
00600000-00601000 r--p 00000000 103:...
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How do I determine amount of resources that Docker host needs to provision to a container, by inspecting a running system?
My goal is to define container definitions("ContainerDefinitions") with appropriate memory size needed in RAM to launch the docker container.
For example, below code snippet for jenkins container(...
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How to sort processes JUST by cached memory usage?
I am taking care of a K8s cluster for our team and some of our components are caching huge amounts of memory.
Usually, this is not a problem because the cached memory is accessible but kubelet ...
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AIX strong memory consumption
Yesterday i had empty free memory on one of my main vio !
This vio got 8 lpars
$ w
rksh: 0403-031 The fork function failed. There is not enough memory available.
Today i am lucky i can send command,...
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How to free cache memory on linux without using it?
I am taking care of a k8s cluster and recently I noticed that many pods get evicted. After digging into the problem and checking the monitoring tools I found out that kubelet is considering both used ...
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Why can I only access 7 of 16GB ram?
I have an FM2+ AMD A10-7700K APU build.
4 physical ram slots filled @ 4 gb each; total 16 gb
2 ssd drives; 120gb (containing OS) and 256gb data
I have been running Cinnamon Mint desktop on this ...
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Why do lsmem and free show different total memory?
I have a CentOS 7 machine and there's a question that bothers me.
When I use lsmem --summary, I get:
Memory block size: 128M
Total online memory: 8G
Total offline memory: 0B
When I ...
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Determine Max System Video Memory
I have a video card installed, which is: "Radeon RX 580 ARMOR 8G" (so, 8G of VRAM)
I have confirmed the 8G amount by running a program that allocates increasing amounts of texture memory, and I can ...
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How to detect memory safety errors in a linux kernel module?
For the past week, I was working on a simplistic kernel module that creates a character device driver that allows the passing of messages between user and kernel space.
All good and nice, I found ...
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Delete last added “stuff” in specific timeframe
I have a major problem.
On my HP Notebook with Linux Mint I had about 220 GB of storage. I only noticed that the fan is driving crazy although I had no application open but I didn't pay any attention ...
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Discrepancy between physical RAM and /proc/meminfo
I have a system with 8 x 16 GB DIMMs, so 128 GB total.
However, the MemTotal reported by /proc/meminfo is 131927808 kB, so 131 GB
My research suggests that if anything, the meminfo should add up up ...
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cgroup to limit memory usage of users
I read this question and tried the methods suggested.
I edited \etc\cgconfig.conf like this:
group memlimit {
memory {
memory.limit_in_bytes = 21474836480;
}
}
and /etc/cgrules.conf
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Memory information
I have a server with centos7 , installed with 8 memory modules.
I want to know what specific memory is installed on DIMM_A4 for example.
With dmidecode or lshw I get the information on all the ...
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System release “used memory” to “free memory” too fast
I have some hosts running MongoDB. Below is a picture monitoring the host's free memory.
It seems that when the free memory keep dropping below some threshold, the system will trigger some memory ...
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What is “effective used” memory on Linux? “used” or (“total”-“available”)?
I need to display in GUI for operator used memory vs available on Linux Server
So what would be logically correct value to display as usage?
[root@host ~]# free
total used ...
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Why do free and vmstat display different info (total and used)
[root@host ~]# free && vmstat -s && cat /proc/meminfo
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 131753676 110322904 1436448 ...
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AArch64 Page Table Configuration
Not sure if this question has been asked...
Is there a way to check the page table configuration of an Android device? I sort of understand how translation table walk works after reading the ARMv8 ...
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Large memory allocations cause kernel to swap even though more than enough memory is free
My situation is virtually the same as this post on serverfault. To summarize:
I have a really simple C++ app that uses a hash-map to count and merge a number of large files. I reserve memory with ...
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Available mem shows more than total mem minus used mem
Since a few years the kernel, and userland tools can show available mem, which should be a better proxy for actual free usable memory, however, the following does not make sense to me:
top - 23:47:56 ...
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I can't really get why directories in paging are needed
I've been trying to figure out this stuff for years, but every time I don't understand. I understand quite well how paging, page tables and page table directories work in Linux, I just don't get why ...
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Clearing linux caches without root privileges
In order to clear caches, I usually invoke
# echo 3 | tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
This requires root privileges. Why do I need to do this occasionally? Because it can have a huge impact on the ...
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Memtest86+ won't boot from USB, hangs on GRUB (via Arch), but works on Ubuntu Live USB
I recently ordered some server/workstation RAM that I wanted to test*, but the well-known memory testing methods are giving me a hard time. The only installed OS is Arch Linux. The machine is 13 years ...
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Black screen after splash screen
Im using Debian 10 Buster GNOME Editon. Yesterday I met with this issue. After I boot Debian, the splash screen comes correctly, but after that it simply gets stuck (ie becones a still image) and ...
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How to enable CMA in x86?
I tried to enable CMA in Ubuntu x86 as per the answer here. However meminfo still shows CMA as zero. We tried to give cma=8M@0-4G. Still it doesn't work. What would be the issue?
Could you suggest a ...
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Understanding the memory growth of a process in svmon's “Inuse” column on an AIX 7 system
Our company has developed a process where I had to add a new method that implies some memory overhead. I'm required to measure it. So I went to svmon and applied it to my process. This is the original ...
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What is the gold linker?
Has anyone used the gold linker before? To link a fairly large project, I had to use this as opposed to the GNU ld, which threw up a few errors and failed to link.
How is the gold linker able to link ...
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Swap partition is used only when RAM usage is to the full [duplicate]
Irrespective of the value I set for swappiness (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness) , the swap area is used only when the RAM is used to the full. Some configuration must be overriding the swappiness. My ...
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Shortcut to clear swap on demand
I am trying to make a shortcut on my desktop where i can just click on it from the Quicklauncher panel when the system is slowing down to clear the swap.
Right now i am using this code in terminal:
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DBMS access on files in linux
I've read that usually the records of a table (in a database) are organized in a file that is managed by the DBMS, not by the OS. That is, the DBMS decides the order of the blocks in a file, the ...
