I'm looking at my server stats right now and was wondering if this was good or bad?

Server Load 0.01 (2 cpus)
Memory Used 14.6 %

^ thats what mine is..

So I'm guessing your memory % is bad :x

Yeah. That's not very good. If it fills up more it might have to start swapping and that would really be not good.

Are you on Windows or Linux? You should check what is using all that memory :O

Originally Posted by garg

Yeah. That's not very good. If it fills up more it might have to start swapping and that would really be not good.

Are you on Windows or Linux? You should check what is using all that memory :O

Where do I check what sites are using up that memory? I'm on Linux btw.

cpsrvd up
Server Load 0.15 (4 cpus)
Memory Used 26.3 %
Swap Used 0.00 %
Disk sda5 (/) 84 %
Disk sda1 (/boot) 17 %
Disk sda3 (/tmp) 2 %


yeah, you're probly too high... I wonder why my disk is so high... hm

Originally Posted by Hoang

Where do I check what sites are using up that memory? I'm on Linux btw.

http://rootip:2086/scripts2/showcpuusage

You could go to the console and type "top" amd press, I believe, m and it will organize by top memory users

or you could type: ps aux | sort -n +3 | tail -5

and it should give you a list of top memory using processes.

^ Yeah all of that is very useful in determining why you are using an excessive amount of memory..

It might not be a problem - it may depend what's running on your system. I'm not an expert server admin but I believe unix systems, and common programs (php, mysql, etc) "reserve" a lot of RAM for their own use. If it were a windows server I'd be more concerned though hehe. I dunno about other people, but you couldn't pay me to host my sites on windows

As was suggested, from a shell prompt (SSH) run the command "top" or even just "w" and you'll see the load on the server. If it's anywhere under 1.0 it's probably ok. According to the output of "top", my server running absolutecross.com which has 2GB of RAM currently has about 512mb "free" out of that, but the system is running great. Since there's almost nothing else running on the server right now and that site is mostly static html, even with a few thousand visitors there's no way it is actually using that much RAM.

From SSH try typing free -m which tells you "the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel." The -m makes the numbers in MB. Using this command on my server, it shows that even though top showed there to be only around 512 or so MB free, there are actually almost 1.7GB free, just most is reserved. Type man free to learn more about the command and other usage options. Though I'm stepping out of my certain knowledge -- I'm pretty sure that those buffers give way to actual needs of the server as they arise.

Hope this helps

You should check if the system is swaping.

In unix OSs the OS can keep the memory for faster cache, and then free it again when is needed by a proccess. This way it has better performance.

My server uses about 80% of the memory even when there is no serious traffic.

I'm gonna upgrade to a bigger package later this week so that it's not as high anymore. It was mainly my proxy site that was eating up all the resources.