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drm/kms: Limit graphics memory usage of process
Is there a way to limit the amount of graphics resources allocated by a process in the DRM/KMS subsystem, similar to the way one can limit system memory consumption with rlimits and cgroups? Is there ...
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Do context switches take up memory?
I’m relatively new to Linux, and I had a few questions about context switching. What kind of system resources does a context switch take up? Does it take up memory? If so, will the memory show up as ...
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Multiple Processes getting stopped with error “Resource temporarily unavailable” and “can't fork” resulting in crash
We are running a script on Dell Edge gateway 3002 to send data to cloud, but after running for 4-5 days the gateway becomes unresponsive(hanged state) and can't be pinged. The gateway has Ubuntu 18.04....
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How to measure the resource use of a system call?
I've written two system calls, and want to compare the memory used up by each one. How could I go about doing this? I've tried getrusage, but almost all of the fields are 0. Thank you!
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Compiling a program causes my system to run out of memory, any workarounds?
During the compilation my system runs out of memory on a compilation unit. How can I deal with this issue?
One way is to enable swap but just doing that would make the machine unuable while the ...
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Where is getrusage defined? [duplicate]
I've been looking into the getrusage function, which I see a prototype for within the file
/include/linux/resource.h. I've tried to trace the directives to find where the actual function is, but I ...
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What deteriorating component in my laptop is causing poor performance while playing videos
I have a laptop which I have been using for years. I was always able to watch Youtube videos and hours-long HD videos stored on my hard drive just fine. However, recently the device started poorly ...
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I am using ssh logging on a remote server and ran a parallel computing application. I use htop to monitor the CPU usage. But after running a long time, htop exit and shows:
htop: too may open files ...
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Who would win, RLIMIT_NPROC or user namespaces?
Depending on configuration, unprivileged (non-root) processes can create a user namespace.
RLIMIT_NPROC limits the number of processes per user.
If I enter a user namespace, can I create processes ...
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Launch a program to only specific resources
Question:
How can I launch a program such that it only uses X ram and Y CPU cores, etc? I happen to be using Ubuntu in this case, but since I often am on other distros, I need a general GNU/Linux ...
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how to determine the impact of an running application on system load average due to CPU resource usage?
As of my knowledge Linux system load average is affected by any means that can affect the system like CPU resource usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, network I/O etc. In top command I am checking ...
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Is this really the official website for DirectFB?
The README document in the DirectFB source tarball lists the official website as www.directfb.org; however, that site seems rather ... odd, to say the least. It starts off talking about Linux, but ...
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Why is this `dd` command producing `Resource busy` errors?
I'm attempting to recover anything possible from a known-bad hard disk (failing, or failed). I began with dd and realized I didn't unmount. After unmounting volumes, I was able to correctly begin the ...
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Is it wrong to think of “memfd”s as accounted “to the process that owns the file”?
https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/memfd_create2/
Theoretically, you could achieve [memfd_create()] behavior without introducing new syscalls, like this:
int fd = open("/tmp", O_RDWR | ...
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Is there a command or a serie of commands to make the computer use as much resources as possible?
I am looking for one or possibly more commands, or a combination of commands, to get my PC to use as much resources as possible.
I want to check how my computer behaves when subject to the maximum ...
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pcs cluster not moving resource when instructed to move
for whatever reason I'm no more able to move resources with pcs
pacemaker-1.1.16-12.el7_4.8.x86_64
corosync-2.4.0-9.el7_4.2.x86_64
pcs-0.9.158-6.el7.centos.1.x86_64
Linux server_a.test.local 3.10.0-...
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What could be using 6GB of my swap?
I have a mystery: what is using 6GB of my swap? My kernel version is 4.15.9-300.fc27.x86_64.
This happened following some crashes. dmesg shows I had a segfault in a gnome-shell process (which ...
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systemd shows as reading 300M in atop?
I just installed atop, waited half an hour, and looked at the logs with atop -r /var/log/atop/atop_20180216.
Why does my systemd --user instance show hundreds of megs of disk usage, including tens of ...
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systemd resource management (specific case: mysql)
I have a problem tying to figure out, how the resource management in systemd works.
To make clear where I am and how I got there, I should start with explaining my situation:
After migrating a mysql-...
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Increasing open files limit for all processes: Do I need to set Soft/Hard limits?
I'm trying to fix the following error that I get after a day or two of running my game server.
2017/12/13 12:08:35 http: Accept error: accept tcp [::]:8081: accept4: too many open files; retrying in ...
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How does Qubes do memory management, especially with regard to shared objects?
I'm just reading about Qubes OS, and I have a very simple question -- how does it do memory management and shared object use?
Feel free to correct any misconceptions or errs in vocab, but we have the ...
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Get size of multiple folders - How to calculate server resources consumption of the process?
I need to get the size of multiple folders (with subfolders and several files) and update a database, in order to limit the users upload to my server. This process must be done periodically, in the ...
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Limit a process or users physical memory share
I have a system running many processes on behalf of other users. Virtual memory space with 64bit operating systems is less of a concern, but my users will still often use up all the physical memory ...
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Prevent a script exhausing system resources and crashing entire system
I was thinking if there is "canonical" way to have this?
Background & description
I have to install some program on live server. Although I do trust the vendor (FOSS, Github, multiple authors...)...
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Docker user executing a process cannot be removed
I have some resources used by a specific user that I had to delete because it was taking a lot of resources from the server. When I listed the processes in the server the deleted user now shows as “...
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How to remove duplicate source list on Debian 8.7
Am running Debian 8.7, after installing #letsencrypt following the tutorial on Digital Ocean. I couldn't update my operating system any more, If I run sudo apt-get update it displays the following ...
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Soft limit vs hard limit
I ran into a problem of :
fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
I know that nproc is the problem
Some suggested to increase the soft limit of nproc while other suggested the hard limit.
Which ...
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How to determine the status of my server
I would like to know how to determine the status of my server using the top command or if I have to change the server or add more resources. Next is the output the top command in my server.
Next are ...
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gnome-shell takes over the CPU
I have Debian 8.5 with the gnome desktop. Very often the gnome-shell is using the CPU over 70% (sometimes over 100%). Why is this happening?
mostly until now when I run a python-pygame project CPU ...
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Running dd. Why resource is busy?
I just formatted microSD card, and would like to run a dd command. Unfortunately dd command fails:
$ sudo dd bs=1m if=2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/rdisk2
dd: /dev/rdisk2: Resource busy
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Generating report resource usage report for child processes
I'm looking for a tool that would generate a report about child processes. I'm interested in CPU usage, memory usage, etc.
Ideally the tool would be used like this:
uber_reporter -o report.html ...
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wget mirror site + resources from other domain
I'm trying to download a website so it can be browsed offline, so I want the html, images, css, javascript, etc.
The problem is that the images are not all hosted on the same domain as the website, ...
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Allow only wrapper script but not command
Say one has a resource hungry command that users on a server need to run. I want to wrap said command with a wrapper script that will parse the arguments passed and ensure that the command is only ...
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How to use cgroups to limit all processes except whitelist to a single CPU?
There is a guide to cgroups from Red Hat which is maybe sort of kind of helpful (but doesn't answer this question).
I know how to limit a specific process to a specific CPU, during the command to ...
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Minimal Linux for virtual network lab
I'm looking for a small linux (in memory and disk usage) distribution to be used in a network of virtual machines for lab testing.
Suggestions or pointers to related information?
Addendum
Now ...
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Resource usage using pipe and here string
We can get the same result using the following two in bash,
echo 'foo' | cat
and
cat <<< 'foo'
My question is what are the difference between these two as far as the resources used are ...
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How to track resources' (inodes, blocks) usage change upon starting a program
I am supposed to track how file system's usage of resources (i-nodes, blocks) changes before I start a program, after I start a program, delete its executable file, and then finally after I kill its ...
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Distributing CPU cores between cgroups and outside world
Is it possible to manage access to CPU cores in a similar fashion that memory limiting works?
In particular I need to be able to dynamically create and destroy cgroups that will limit a particular ...
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What desktop enviroment consumes fewer resources? [closed]
I want to install Mint in my laptop, but I'm undecided about which desktop environment I should use with it. Currently the available desktop environments the distribution offers are Cinnamon, MATE, ...
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Is there a way to change the number of processors a program sees?
Is there any way I can trick a program into thinking the system has fewer processors? To explain: I am debugging a program that creates as many threads as it has processors, using sysconf(...
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How much RAM and CPU for a NTP server? [closed]
As a side project, I am thinking about adding a NTP server to pool.ntp.org. I would like to use CentOS basic, but how much RAM and CPU should I assign to a machine that will only be running ntpd (plus ...
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How to add persist shell ulimit settings on Mac? [duplicate]
I want to enable core dump generation by default upon reboot.
Executing:
ulimit -c unlimited
in a terminal seems to work until the computer is rebooted.
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Pacemaker: migrate resource without adding a “prefer” line in config
Using pacemaker in a 2 nodes master/slave configuration.
In order to perform some tests, we want to switch the master role from node1 to node2, and vice-versa. For instance if the current master is ...
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Is there any way to tell exactly what files a command is accessing?
I'm working on a piece of software that requires me to know what files and resources any certain launched process are accessing.
I'm not planning on attempting to track what every single script, ...
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Linux freezing randomly
My Computer has been freezing a lot lately, and with no apparent reason.It freezes even if my usage is 3% CPU and 9% RAM.
I was using Windows 8 until I installed Ubuntu 14.04.
It was really slow, ...
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Openvz resource management
I have a couple of nodes ( which are not mine ) running one openvz kernel version -2.6.32-042stab092.2
specifications :
processor model name : E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Number of Processors : 24
RAM : 48G
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How to limit the total resources (memory) of a process and its children
There are plenty of questions and answers about constraining the resources of a single process, e.g. RLIMIT_AS can be used to constrain the maximum memory allocated by a process that can be seen as ...
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Does 'ulimit -m' not work on (modern) Linux?
This article claims that the -m flag to ulimit does nothing in modern Linux. I can find nothing else to corroborate this claim. Is it accurate?
You may try to limit the memory usage of a process ...
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How can I force a script to use more resources?
I'm running a very time-consuming script which takes many hours to end. Watching top I see that it's only taking 5% of the CPU at best, usually around 3%.
Is there any way to force the script to use ...
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Worker MPM or Prefork?
I understand that there is a comparison topic between the two modules but this is different.
I was contacting cPanel support in order to help me freeing up some memory usage on the VPS. They found ...
