Re: How to find out where memory leaks to
On the box I was talking about:
tdgroote@fkserv:~$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 901440 441232 460208 0 90296
247512
-/+ buffers/cache: 103424 798016
Swap: 481928 0 481928
tdgroote@fkserv:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 880 430 449 0 88
241
-/+ buffers/cache: 101 779
Swap: 470 0 470
on another box, same symptoms (ext2 disks, no quota) :
thomas@vgkfgen1:~$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 482548 54044 428504 0 2496
36256
-/+ buffers/cache: 15292 467256
Swap: 497972 0 497972
thomas@vgkfgen1:~$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 482548 240648 241900 0 2676
216620
-/+ buffers/cache: 21352 461196
Swap: 497972 0 497972
thomas@vgkfgen1:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 471 239 231 0 2
215
-/+ buffers/cache: 20 450
Swap: 486 0 486
The second 'free' was a couple of hours later, without touching the
machine...
Thx,
Thomas
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 01:18 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:03:22PM +0200, Thomas De Groote said
Hey,
I am running a quite standard Debian woody setup with the kernel
2.4.18
that comes from the packages. The 2 HDs are in a RAID0, formatted as
ext3, with quota installed. Problem is that for some reason after
about
1 week the 1 Gb of RAM is completely filled and when looking in top or
ps I can't discover any process taking a lot of RAM.
Does anyone have an idea as to how to find what is taking my memory
away? I could add another Gb, but I guess that will be taken in soon
as
well...
Sorry if this is a newbie-question answered elsewhere, I did a search
but couldn't find anything.
Can you send us the output of "free -m"? Mine looks like this:
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 250 238 11 0 0
53
-/+ buffers/cache: 185 65
Swap: 899 453 446
I only have 11MB free, but that's because my kernel has 53MB stashed
away as disk cache. You want to look at the second row (-/+
buffers/cache:) to get a useful value for your free memory. When an
app
needs more memory, the kernel will flush the cache and a program can
use
the memory.
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