Re: Strange problems...
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:08:04PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> > Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > 1. figure out what uses insane amount of memory and apply kill and/or rm
>
> So, this is a common response from a system that has exhaused both swap
> and real memory? Any good candidates in a "standard" system? I don't do
> anything now that I haven't done for years, so it's probably one of those
> new "features" of Debian, right? ;-)
>
> I couldn't get top to run while the "event" was occuring, and afterwards
> everything looked ok ... hmmm, I do seem to have a problem here. Mem:
> reports 64K with about 62K in use. So how come the whole 128 meg is not
> being recognized? (it shows up on the memory test at boot)
try using `ps vax`, or something similar (the "v" option shows memory usage)
::snip? snip!::
> Thanks,
>
> Dwarf
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