Hello, I am part of a team at work with 3 Redhat 9 machines. We are seeing strange memory issues with all 3 machines. We started with the original (no upgrades) install, and with that we could see a steady increment of memory in top with each refresh, without adding any applications. I suspected our X server or client, so I tested it without running X, and with no user apps started, and I could see an 8 kb increment in memory usage every time top refreshed (5 sec.). This is the same pattern we'd seen with X running. Our memory problems started as soon as we installed Redhat 9 on the first 2 machines a few months ago. They had 256 mb of RAM, and when we ran mysql and 2 instances of apache, along with X and Gnome - we actually brought the machine down when mysql had a difficult query. I turned X off on that machine and got a memory upgrade to 512 mb, and after a number of days running, it ran typically with 500-506 mb of ram used, and 83 mb in swap! On the other machine (my development machine), with X and Gnome and apache and mysql running, the machine always started to run vvvvery slowly. So I asked for memory and got it - to 512 mb of RAM - and we haven't seen any crashes or slowdowns on either of these machines. However, within 2 hours of starting, running X and FVWM, 3 rxvt terminals and the Opera browser (no apache, no mysql, nothing else, trying to save memory), I am using 506 mb of RAM. Is this normal? We checked and the third RH 9 machine also has the mysterious 8 kb increment / 5 seconds pattern. We thought it might be something that was fixed by RH, but I have run up2date with both of these machines, and they are today running maxed out as described, 2-3 hours after a reboot. Anybody have a line on this? Thanks, Paul -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
