MySQL’s maximum memory usage very much depends on hardware, your settings and the database itself. Hardware The hardware is the obvious part. The more RAM the merrier, faster disks ftw. Don’t believe those monthly or weekly news letters though. MySQL doesn’t scale linear – not even on Oracle hardware. It’s a little trickier than that. … Read more
Softwares run on the OS on a very simple premise – they require memory. The device OS provides it in the form of RAM. The amount of memory required may vary – some softwares need huge memory, some require paltry memory. Most (if not all) users run multiple applications on the OS simultaneously, and given … Read more
So to prevent another dozen of answers suggesting invalid in the context of this thread suggestion to !kill -9 -1, let’s close this thread: The answer is simple: As of this writing Google simply gives only 5% of GPU to some of us, whereas 100% to the others. Period. dec-2019 update: The problem still exists … Read more
Have you tried cat /proc/meminfo? You can then awk or grep out what you want, MemTotal e.g. awk ‘/MemTotal/ {print $2}’ /proc/meminfo or cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
use quick tip using top command in linux/unix $ top and then hit Shift+m (i.e. write a capital M). From man top SORTING of task window For compatibility, this top supports most of the former top sort keys. Since this is primarily a service to former top users, these commands do not appear on any … Read more
The psutil library gives you information about CPU, RAM, etc., on a variety of platforms: psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by tools like ps, top and Windows task manager. It currently … Read more
There is one rather sneaky trick not mentioned here so far. We assume that you have no extra way to store data, but that is not strictly true. One way around your problem is to do the following horrible thing, which should not be attempted by anyone under any circumstances: Use the network traffic to … Read more