[Novalug] memory question

Bryan J Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org
Sat Aug 29 20:34:49 EDT 2015


You don't want to use swap, if you can help it.

When you're running with that much resident, and it's not being used
by buffer or cache (less than 384MiB in your case), then it's time to
consider upgrading memory.

-- bjs


On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:25 PM, pereira via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> List,
>
> could you give me some advice on what to do when you
> run out of memory?
>
> I have a 'movie', 2000 pictures that follow each other.
> The soft that I use to look at them (ImageJ) tries to load them
> but halfway gives up, saying:
>
> "All available memory (5991Mb) has been used. To make more
> available use the 'edits' command (bla-bla).
>
> I had done that earlier, and asked for 6 Gb of the 8Gb I
> have in the machine. To see what I actually use, I do:
>
> cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:         8176604 kB
> MemFree:           266608 kB
> Buffers:                   8896 kB
> Cached:              322220 kB
> SwapCached:        27492 kB
> Active:               6111496 kB
> Inactive:            1516908 kB
> Active(anon):     5989440 kB
> Inactive(anon):  1324700 kB
> Active(file):          122056 kB
> Inactive(file):       192208 kB
> Unevictable:              192 kB
> Mlocked:                    192 kB
> SwapTotal:       15624188 kB
> SwapFree:        15493876 kB
>
> So, I have 2 Gb I could still use, and then there's the 'swap': 15 Gb.
>
> There seems to be a way to  access this 'swap memory', but is that
> a smart thing to do? Or should I just bite the bullet and take out
> the 4 sticks of 2 Gb memory my MB accommodates, and purchase
> more memory.
>
> Any  thoughts are most welcome.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nino
>
>
>
>
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