# Server Memory Usage (Mongrel) **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-memory-usage-mongrel/110540 "2007-07-27T11:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sol)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-memory-usage-mongrel/110540/1 "2007-07-27T11:43:35Z")
Hey, I’m wondering about the memory usage on my rootserver and have some basic questions. free -m: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1003 928 75 0 311 75 -/+ buffers/cache: 540 462 Swap: 2047 0 2047 So I have a total of 1003m, with 540m currently used. I’m running 2 mongrel servers, nginx and postgres which shouldn’t be very much. top reports (RES column) 2 mongrels, each around 60 mb (somehow htop reports somehow 4 mongrels, but as I read this is a different story) 1 postmaster process (postgres) around 10mb and a couple of smaller processes. If I sum up the RES column in htop, its around 180m Munin report for the memory usage (curr) apps: 145m My question: I don’t fully understand that, I thought the free -m value of 540m is the actually used memory? But this seems way too high to me, 50% actually used. Can anyone please give some explanations? ---
**Author:** ![sol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sol)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/server-memory-usage-mongrel/110540/2 "2007-07-28T10:39:52Z")
using `ps aux | grep mongrel` will give you an idea (in a percentage) of what your mongrels’ are weighing in at. the more you’re loading into the env, the heavier they will be. rails stack for a hello world app with a few frameworks disabled is around 60mb. so thats your baseline.