Re: server memory & swap eaten up then freaks out

[frank <frank@anotheria.net>]

Hi Pete,

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:33 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote:
> I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs out
> of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which
> point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this please?

Watch the ten biggest processes, are they growing permanently?
ps aux | sort -nr -k5 | grep -v USER | head -10

Whats about the process count? How many processes running? Is this
number constantly growing?
ps aux | wc -l

Ciao
Frank