[mesa-users] memory usage

Jakub Ostrowski ostrowski at astro.uni.wroc.pl
Wed Jan 30 12:13:55 EST 2013


Hi Ilka!

It looks pretty normal for me. I observed that MESA usually uses 1.5-1.6 GB and when I use cluster I always ask for 2048 MB.

Cheers,
Jakub


On 30 sty 2013, at 18:01, Jeff Andrews <andrews at astro.columbia.edu> wrote:

> Ilka,
> 
> I can't say for sure what that anonymous memory is, but MESA takes up lots of memory - easily over 1 GB. From what I remember, a lot of this is taken up by the eos tables. Maybe someone else can comment further.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Ilka Petermann <m.ilka at gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear MESA-users,
> when running jobs with MESA (4740), I noticed that the memory usage is rather high- for example when running the test-suite '40M_z1m4_to_si_burn',
> the first lines of 'pmap' give:
> Address           Kbytes Mode  Offset           Device    Mapping
> 0000000000400000    4208 r-x-- 0000000000000000 000:00014 star_40M
> 0000000000a1b000      20 rw--- 000000000041b000 000:00014 star_40M
> 0000000000a20000    2032 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
> 0000000002101000   69080 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
> 00007fee0a54f000  987876 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
> 00007fee48981000   16720 rw--- 0000000000000000 000:00000   [ anon ]
> ...
> Does anyone know what this 'anonymus memory' is used for?
> Thanks in advance,
> Ilka
> 
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