On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 08:26, 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. > > Below is the ouput from "top" and "ps". > > PLEEAASSEE help! > > Thanks & Regards, > Jacques > > > 8:32am up 23:03, 2 users, load average: 0.57, 0.44, 0.26 > 98 processes: 92 sleeping, 3 running, 3 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 24.6% user, 4.5% system, 0.0% nice, 70.8% idle > Mem: 190836K av, 185736K used, 5100K free, 0K shrd, 12576K buff > Swap: 513024K av, 59704K used, 453320K free 51800K cached > <blah /> well this doesn't help much since it's the picture of a healty system... you should post the same output capured when the system is slowing down. Or try run top continuously and hit 'M' to sort by memory usage to discover "who" is eating your memory. Piero -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
