Hi, I have a few questions about RAM and SWAP Does it matter what sized files the suers are downloading,for example if those files are 10 MB and 100 MB,does it mean that for apache to wirk,it shoudl first download those files into RAM and then start sending them and if a user has opened 5 connections and download 100 MB files each then the RAM will be loading by 5 x 100 MB = 500 MB files ? And once RAM get overloaded the system will start utilizing SWAP ? Is there a command which will show me which files are currently loaded in RAM along with their sizes ?
that's not how ram works. The size of files on the disk has no bearing on the way the host operating system uses it's resources. When a user requests a file over a network connection, RAM is used, but, instead of the machine reading the whole file into its memory and then transferring it, it might make a 512kb or less cache inside the ram, it'll then fill that up, that'll get emptied to a network buffer ( either another virutal portion of ram, or an actual network buffer depending on equipment ), and the network connection will transfer the data to the end user, then it'll fill the buffer up again and so on and so forth, remember a computers cpu can do thousands ( if not millions ) of calculations per second. If the host operating system is running out of ram, then the os will start to use a disk swap, NT has this also, only they call it a pagefile instead, this isn't so efficient as using the RAM, mostly because hard drives have moving parts and that slows them down considerably. Hope that exaplins..
this is the closest thread i could find to my question. here goes. i have a new server with pretty much a default whm/cpanel and whm master reseller install on it. the cpu load is very low right now. under 1% but the memory usage is at 75 percent or so. im looking in whm and i see that my swap space is not getting used. the data from whm is pasted below. a couple of quick questions: 1) whm/cpanel doesn't automatically configure a swap space with a default? 2) how do i go out configuring the swap space for usage? 3) are there settings that should be set for a hosting provider to maximize hosting perfomance and maximize accounts on the box? Memory Information Memory: 1024104k/1039936k available (2253k kernel code, 15084k reserved, 1204k data, 268k init, 122432k highmem) System Information Linux server1.hosty.net 2.6.22.7-57.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Sep 21 20:23:24 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Physcial Disks Current Memory Usage total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1026252 987660 38592 0 14040 250848 -/+ buffers/cache: 722772 303480 Swap: 0 0 0 Total: 1026252 987660 38592 Current Disk Usage Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 283G 78G 191G 30% / /dev/sda1 395M 19M 356M 6% /boot tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda3 2.0G 8.9M 1.9G 1% /tmp
I dont have Cpanel based server,but as with any otehr server,SWAP usage is something OS managed. Your system will start utilizing SWAP once you go out of RAM. As any otehr system yours will need to be optimized for a better performance.
hi, ok. i added a swap partition since i didn't even have one!!! and it appears that its getting used. you said you have to tweak it huh. how do i go about this. is there a good guide somewhere? also....the swap space wasn't my only problem. it appears that i still have a rather high memory utilization problem below is the PID table(as you can see...there tends to be a trend with /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -dssl. i have restarted apache and they keep coming back. what is this, can they be ended and how do i prevent them from lingering?: Pid Owner Priority Cpu % Mem % Command 31058 nobody 0 17.4 1.3 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 31536 nobody 0 10.8 2.3 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 14173 nobody 0 5.3 2.4 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 29070 nobody 0 3.0 1.4 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 14287 mysql 0 2.6 2.9 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/server1.hosty.net.pid --skip-external-locking 29997 nobody 0 2.6 1.5 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 31293 nobody 0 2.0 1.3 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 2013 root 0 0.3 0.0 syslogd -m 0 3142 root 0 0.3 0.3 cPanel Update (upcp) - Master 30269 root 0 0.3 0.0 pure-ftpd (SERVER) 30961 nobody 0 0.3 1.4 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 31327 nobody 0 0.3 1.2 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 31424 nobody 0 0.3 1.5 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 31431 nobody 0 0.3 1.5 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL 31444 root 0 0.3 0.1 top -n 2 -b -c 1 root 0 0.0 0.0 init [3] 2016 root 0 0.0 0.0 klogd -x 2076 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/spool/authdaemon/pid -facility=mail -start /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond 2077 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond 2079 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond 2080 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond 2081 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond 2082 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond 2083 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond 2110 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/sshd 2206 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/run/imapd.pid -start -name=imapd /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 143 /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd Maildir 2207 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 143 /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd Maildir 2213 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/run/imapd-ssl.pid -start -name=imapd-ssl /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 993 /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd Maildir 2214 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 993 /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/imapd Maildir 2219 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/run/pop3d.pid -start -name=pop3d /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 110 /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/pop3login /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/pop3d Maildir 2220 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 110 /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/pop3login /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/pop3d Maildir 2225 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/run/pop3d-ssl.pid -start -name=pop3d-ssl /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 995 /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/pop3login /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/pop3d Maildir 2226 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup 995 /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/pop3login /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/pop3d Maildir 2785 root 0 0.0 0.4 cpbandwd 2904 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/portsentry -tcp 2986 root 0 0.0 0.0 /usr/sbin/smartd -q never 2989 root 0 0.0 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty1 2990 root 0 0.0 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty2 2991 root 0 0.0 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty3 2992 root 0 0.0 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty4 2993 root 0 0.0 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty5 2994 root 0 0.0 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty6 3137 root 0 0.0 0.1 crond 3163 root 0 0.0 0.3 cPanel Update (upcp) - 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the problem is resolved temporarily it appears. once installed the swap everything seemed to take over. there just happened to be higher load on the box than normal.