[bitfolk] Checking VPS performance

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Author: Robert Leverington
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Subject: [bitfolk] Checking VPS performance
Andy asked:

> We had a support ticket earlier where a customer with 480MiB RAM is
> only seeing 464MiB of it as reported by "free -m".


> It's not a big deal and I'm not asking you to let me know if you do
> or don't see it too (there's currently nothing I can do about it).


Both mine (Debian Lenny) look ok:

a:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          720        402        317          0         85        214
-/+ buffers/cache:        102        617
Swap:          255          0        255
a:~# uname -a
Linux XXXX 2.6.26-2-xen-686 #1 SMP Sat Jun 11 16:07:16 UTC 2011 i686 
GNU/Linux



b:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          360        299         60          0         16        186
-/+ buffers/cache:         96        263
Swap:          359          0        359
b:~# uname -a
Linux XXXX 2.6.26-2-xen-686 #1 SMP Sat Jun 11 16:07:16 UTC 2011 i686 
GNU/Linux


Ian


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Hi OM,

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:11:02PM +0200, Ole-Morten Duesund wrote:
> Perhaps this might be relevant? From my dmesg :
>
> [21532581.898890] Initializing CPU#0
> [21532581.902734] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
> [21532581.902740] Memory: 338928k/368640k available (2573k kernel code,  
> 29052k reserved, 1394k data, 396k init, 0k highmem)
> [21532581.902746] virtual kernel memory layout:
> [21532581.902747]     fixmap  : 0xf5556000 - 0xf57ff000   (2724 kB)
> [21532581.902748]     pkmap   : 0x