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VPS with Centos 6 Apache server and Directadmin - something is using all the arm

I'm using Direct Admin on Centos 6 on a VPS that has 32 GB RAM which has 2 WordPress websites yesterday, I opened my site and it was super slow I opened the Apache's server status and I didn't see ...
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Free -m and free -k display same quantities

When running the commands free -m and free -k, they display the same quantity of memory. Furthermore, free --mega and free --kilo display the expected quantities (the correct ones). What might be ...
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Measure ram speed for application/ current speed utilization

Is there a way to measure the current ram speed? I have an application which needs a lot of ram and I'm tuning performance and it looks like I have hit the limit of ram speed, but I have to measure it ...
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Getting not enough memory error when installing CentOS

Ok its been a long time since working with Linux, first time with CentOS (Worked with Redhat when it was free, before it went to Fedora). Anyway I have an old HP DC5000 computer with 256GB of memory ...
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CentOS What's Taking Up My Memory?

I'm running a KVM on CentOS 6. I have 387GB installed on the machine with 186GB allocated by VM's (I've verified this via virsh). I should have 201GB free. However, when I look at available memory I'm ...
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Limit process ram but force swap instead of kill

I am currently quite frustrated with meteor. I am going to make my own telescope modification via the official repository on my hosting service of choice. The only problem is that meteor builds the ...
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2 votes
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Minimal Desktop to Centos 7 [closed]

I am running a very low RAM (1 GB) system and I have the minimal centos 7 installed on it. Now I need to use a window manager and I cant find the lightest. GNOME, KDE... are too heavy. I just want to ...
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Memory Usage of `yum update`

I was updating a slightly out of date server with yum update and ran into memory issues. It appears that yum requires enough free RAM to download each package. Updating single packages was not a ...
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Prevent processes from reading userspace

I was trying to read and write values from a process with a program (ceserver, part of the CheatEngine project) which both ran in user-space (without root). I didn't expect it to work, however ...
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Centos 7 detecting only 3 GB of RAM

Centos 7 is detecting only less than 3GB of RAM instead of 4 [root@compute ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2913 425 ...
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Why does Dropbox use so much memory on Linux?

pmap shows that Dropbox uses nearly 200MB of memory (on Linux). When I run Dropbox on Windows, it only uses about 30MB of memory. What is the reason for that? Also, why are there so many [ anon ] ...
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