[hunchentoot-devel] how much virtual memory do your servers use?

Jeff Cunningham jeffrey at cunningham.net
Sat Jan 5 21:07:05 UTC 2008


Yoni Rabkin wrote:
> Jeff Cunningham <jeffrey at cunningham.net> writes:
>
>   
>> What kind of virtual memory usage do you folks see in your servers?
>>     
>
> Anywhere between 90MB and 250MB of *resident* memory. The higher values
> are when they load a large data-set into memory.
>
> These numbers are for SBCL+Hunchentoot, in images which work for a few
> months at a time. The numbers have also been the consistent across
> different SBCL versions.
>
> I've never had a memory leak under SBCL+Hunchentoot which wasn't
> directly my fault.
>
> My friend is usually:
>
> CL-USER> (room)
>
>   
Thanks - I didn't know about 'room. When I run it on one of these images 
it says its using 162m of dynamic space, but at the same time top says 
its using 690m of virtual memory. Room doesn't seem to keep track of its 
virtual memory footprint?

--Jeff



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