On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:17, Jacques de Villiers wrote: > Has anyone experienced this: > > I'm running redhat 8.0 on my desktop at the office. The machine is a Compaq SFF Pentium 2 with 196 Meg RAM and a 6 GIG disk. > > Eversince I installed the OS I have had to reboot +/- every 7 days seeing that machine runs out of swap, with the HDD then going ballistic and the machine slowing down to a crawl. Originally the machine had only 128M RAM and I thought that THAT might be the problem, I then added another 64M and increased the swapfile from 256M to 512M. This have made no difference whatsoever. > > A UNIX guru over here suggested I might have some kind of "memory leak." > > I really don't know where to start looking for the problem. > > PLEEAASSEE help! Let your system run until you see your swap space nearly full. At that point, open a terminal window and run "ps -agvwx --sort=vsize". That will list all processes sorted by virtual size, with larger processes at the end so you can tell which process(es) is(are) eating up your memory. Then you will have a lead as to where to continue checking. I had a similar experience here at work in a development server, which took about 2 days to fill up swap. I used the described method to find out who was the culprit and setup a cron job every four hours to restart the process so as to clean up the mess. The funny thing is that the same process in a production server shows no problem at all. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Av. Kennedy 5757, of. 1502 Ingeniero de Sistemas Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Virtualia S.A. Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 jgostling@virtualia.cl Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
