Re: buffers getting way out of control
Well - upon more investigation I found this to be in the debian bug report
logs - #12245. This report talks about bogus +/- buffers free readings.
Sorry about the posts - I guess I should have dug a little further. Still
doesn't explain my out of memory errors - hmmm.
Robert
Robert Zeches wrote:
> Here's more info. If I stop the apache server everything seems to be
> normal:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 127924 75576 52348 11560 51012
> -/+ buffers: 24564 1336
> Swap: 128484 0 128484 11732
>
> but if I start it again I get the same output as before. Thanks again.
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Zeches wrote:
>
> > I hope someone can help me with this - I'm not a Debian guru and I
> > didn't find anything in the list archives that was relevant to this.
> > Here goes: If I run free, I notice that after awhile the numbers on the
> > buffers line show upwards of 4GB of memory. If I let this stay this way
> > eventually things start "running out of memory" specifiaclly apache,
> > sendmail, and the telnet and ftp daemons - so I am forced to reboot the
> > system about every four hours. Does anyone have any insight into this?
> > Here's the output of free:
> >
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 127924 83652 44272 40796 49156
> > -/+ buffers: 34496 4189420
> > Swap: 128484 0 128484 11764
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can provide. I can give more info if needed.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > "THE INTERNET IS A GREAT WAY TO GET ON THE NET"
> > -Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole
>
> --
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> "THE INTERNET IS A GREAT WAY TO GET ON THE NET"
> -Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole
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