Minimal Ubuntu on VMWare VPS? :(

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• yomero Member

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  Wow, definitively no idea.

  Have you tried reinstalling?

  What happens if you kill vmtoolsd?
• giang Veteran

  December 2011

  I've reinstalled several times =D
• giang Veteran

  December 2011

  ps_mem.py output:

   Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program
  
  144.0 KiB +  31.0 KiB = 175.0 KiB       atd
  144.0 KiB +  63.5 KiB = 207.5 KiB       syslogd
  176.0 KiB +  63.0 KiB = 239.0 KiB       irqbalance
  160.0 KiB +  88.0 KiB = 248.0 KiB       upstart-socket-bridge
  276.0 KiB +  63.0 KiB = 339.0 KiB       cron
  272.0 KiB + 109.5 KiB = 381.5 KiB       upstart-udev-bridge
  268.0 KiB + 179.5 KiB = 447.5 KiB       master
  348.0 KiB + 196.0 KiB = 544.0 KiB       qmgr
  580.0 KiB + 181.5 KiB = 761.5 KiB       dk-filter
  776.0 KiB +  31.5 KiB = 807.5 KiB       dbus-daemon
  696.0 KiB + 159.5 KiB = 855.5 KiB       init
  644.0 KiB + 321.5 KiB = 965.5 KiB       udevd (3)
    1.1 MiB + 260.0 KiB =   1.4 MiB       tlsmgr
    2.1 MiB + 323.5 KiB =   2.4 MiB       vmtoolsd
    1.6 MiB + 881.5 KiB =   2.5 MiB       sshd (2)
    2.6 MiB + 112.0 KiB =   2.7 MiB       bash
    2.6 MiB +   1.9 MiB =   4.5 MiB       nginx (5)
    7.9 MiB + 285.0 KiB =   8.2 MiB       mysqld
   47.0 MiB +   5.2 MiB =  52.2 MiB       php-cgi (2)
  ---------------------------------
                           79.7 MiB
  =================================
  

  free -m output:

               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          1001        899        102          0         25        163
  -/+ buffers/cache:        710        291
  Swap:          951          0        951
  

  htop output:
  http://i.imgur.com/ZOYod.png
• yomero Member

  December 2011

  Well, no.

  I think you must check with your provider, or try another OS.

  As I showed you, there is some memory ballonning in vmware, and probably is being used. But maybe someone with experience in vmware can give more help.
• tux Member

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  My VPS memory usage seem like this:

   Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program 
  
  152.0 KiB +  28.5 KiB = 180.5 KiB       vnstatd
  164.0 KiB +  87.5 KiB = 251.5 KiB       upstart-socket-bridge
  228.0 KiB + 108.5 KiB = 336.5 KiB       upstart-udev-bridge
  284.0 KiB +  59.5 KiB = 343.5 KiB       cron
  232.0 KiB + 175.0 KiB = 407.0 KiB       pickup
  272.0 KiB + 175.0 KiB = 447.0 KiB       qmgr
  284.0 KiB + 177.0 KiB = 461.0 KiB       master
  508.0 KiB + 199.5 KiB = 707.5 KiB       getty (7)
  488.0 KiB + 312.0 KiB = 800.0 KiB       udevd (3)
  784.0 KiB +  31.0 KiB = 815.0 KiB       dbus-daemon
  720.0 KiB + 148.0 KiB = 868.0 KiB       init
  884.0 KiB +  70.0 KiB = 954.0 KiB       rsyslogd
    1.3 MiB +  76.5 KiB =   1.4 MiB       bash
    1.7 MiB +   1.1 MiB =   2.8 MiB       sshd (2)
    2.1 MiB + 922.0 KiB =   3.0 MiB       nginx (5)
   23.8 MiB +  92.0 KiB =  23.9 MiB       mysqld
   16.4 MiB +  15.1 MiB =  31.4 MiB       php5-fpm (5)
  ---------------------------------
                           68.9 MiB
  =================================
  
   Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program 

               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:           593        520         72          0        138        311
  -/+ buffers/cache:         70        522
  Swap:          639          0        639
• giang Veteran

  December 2011

  Here is an explaination from the support, it's new for me Was he right?

  The operating system reads files from the disk as they are used and stores them in RAM for faster access. This is called file system 'cache' and is normal. This RAM space will be given up if needed by the OS or other programs.
• Infinity Member, Host Rep

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  He is assuming you don't know what the -/+ buffers/cache column means, tell him that even the RAM usage excluding the cache'd is increasing. He's basically explained what I think you already know, which is to look at the buffers -/+ column, and you posted that even that column is increasing.

  Yes, my explanation isn't the best which is why I tend to stay away from these threads but ya know!
• yomero Member

  December 2011

  @Infinity said: He's basically explained what I think you already know, which is to look at the buffers -/+ column, and you posted that even that column is increasing.

  +1
  Tell them that you are not an idiot, lol
• giang Veteran

  December 2011

  @yomero said: Tell them that you are not an idiot, lol

  I've sent them an email with free -m screenshot and tell them which is mem cache and which is real mem )
• Infinity Member, Host Rep

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  @yomero said: Tell them that you are not an idiot, lol

  Just append idiot with a swear word of your choice :P
• SpeedBus Member, Host Rep

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  Hmm.. I don't know if this is 100% correct anyway here goes,

  OpenVZ uses a shared kernel where every VM uses 1 Kernel (shares it), because of this the memory usage of each VM is quiet low and hence minimal templates and installs are possible of various OS's.

  While on VMWare or KVM, where virtulization is near dedicated, where the kernel is not shared, the memory usage cannot be pulled down to what it can be on openVZ, as each VM has it's own Kernel, just like a dedicated server.
• Infinity Member, Host Rep

  December 2011

  @SpeedBus said: While on VMWare or KVM, where virtulization is near dedicated, where the kernel is not shared, the memory usage cannot be pulled down to what it can be on openVZ, as each VM has it's own Kernel, just like a dedicated server.

  Indeed but not 700MB, http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/19242#Comment_19242.
• SpeedBus Member, Host Rep

  December 2011

  @Infinity : whoops ! I missed that :O