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Re: Memory leakage



on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez (arodriguez@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason,

"Memory loss" and "hard disk" don't make sense.

Are you talking about memory (RAM) issues, or have you lost data or
partitions on you hard drive?

> i.e., of about 1 gb, where to look for reasons and fixes?
> The only running program besides the kernel, and x11 was rsnyc.

Did you delete an open file?  If you delete a file while another program
is writing to it, the space is not reallocated until the writing process
is terminated.  In this case, you may be able to locate the open process
with:

  - lsof
  - ps

If lsof shows the process, you can kill it.  Otherwise, switching to
single user mode, or as a last resort, rebooting the system, may reset
things.

If none of the above work, something else is wrong.

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