Re: Memory Leaking. Help!

xystrus (xystrus@haxm.com)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 01:18:34 -0400


On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:28:00AM +1000, ivan wrote:
> That was 4 GB not 2.
>
> No, I do not. That is why I asked is there a way to find out what is
> eating ram. I am not sure if this a leakage. I am only a paranoid
> sysadmin.
>

I think you said this was a server, didn't you?

You neglected to mention that you're running X and Nautilus on this
server. You probably don't need this stuff running on a server, and
it is chewing up a good amount of RAM. If you don't absolutely need
X, try bringing the system up in run level 3 and see if your problem
disappears...

Memory usage (as reported below) of named looks fine.

> named 908 0.0 0.1 13956 3988 ? S Apr14 0:00 named -u

This is probably a big waste:

> root 5765 0.2 0.2 17664 10584 ? S< 09:36 0:07 /etc/X11/X
> :0
> root 5818 0.0 0.2 40124 11068 ? S 09:36 0:01 nautilus
> start-he
> root 5838 0.0 0.2 40124 11068 ? S 09:36 0:00 nautilus
> start-he
> root 5839 0.0 0.2 40124 11068 ? S 09:36 0:00 nautilus
> start-he
> root 5840 0.0 0.2 40124 11068 ? S 09:36 0:00 nautilus

[etc. snipped]

You also seem to have someone on the system running win4lin and
multiple instances of adobe acrobat reader. If this is really a
server, perhaps it would be better to have them run those things
elsewhere...

Hope that helps

-- 
Xy
xystrus@haxm.com

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