Redis - monitoring memory usage

Question

I am currently testing insertion of keys in a database Redis (on local). I have more than 5 millions keys and I have just 4GB RAM so at one moment I reach capacity of RAM and sw

Answer 1

There is a good Unix utility named vmstat. It is like top but command line, so you can get the memory usage and be prepared before you system is halt. You can also use ps v PID to get this info about specific process. Redis's PID is can be retrieved this way: pidof redis-server