[sheepdog-users] RAM usage

[Liu Yuan]

On 06/18/2013 03:59 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> Hi, I open a new tread to speak about ram.
> 
> Just to understand how to consider the ram. If all the guests are off,
> should the ram used by sheep be "released"?
> I mean, I read '1022206 406864' from 'ps axv | grep sheep' also when
> guests are off and sheep should do almost nothing.
> 
> I also know this may depend from linux more than sheep daemon.
> 
> Thank you.
> 

For a simple try, just # pmap sheep_pid, will give you some ideas.

Can you try this page to see how memory is used in your env?

http://elinux.org/Runtime_Memory_Measurement

I guess considerable memory is just reserved(cached) by the glibc's
ptmalloc implementation even when sheep don't do IOs.

Thanks,
Yuan