Re: Sudden memory usage.
Maybe ps aux would use less memory than Top -- I don't really know just a
thought. My other thought is Netscape. I've had a similar situation happen
while using the browser. Not much to go on here.
hth,
kent
----- Original Message -----
From: Levi <levi@top.monad.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:38 PM
Subject: Sudden memory usage.
> Tonight, while running nothing out of the ordinary, there was a sudden
> increase in hard drive activity. Really suspicous, I hopped over to tty8
> where I keep a copy of top running for just this sort of occasion. Top was
> set to display my usual luser account's procceses, so I couldn't see what
> was using *all* (real and virtual) my memory. I attempted to chang top's
> display to show all users, but at that point there wasn't even enough free
> memory to do that. I was finally forced to use crt-alt-del to reboot my
> box. After rebooting I spent half an hour probing through /var/log/* but
> didn't find hide nor hair of the culprit. Has anyone else ever had this
> happen and if so, where you able to assertain the cause.
>
> Thanks in advance
> -Levi
>
> P.S. I'm running "woody", updated somtime last week.
>
> P.P.S Please CC in any replies, thanks.
>
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