Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:11:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:11:48 -0400 Received: from mpdr0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net ([206.141.223.14]:21695 "EHLO mailhost.cle.ameritech.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:10:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:10:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Torri X-X-Sender: To: Linux Kernel Subject: Memory free report error (kernel-2.4.10-ac10) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have installed and used kernel-2.4.10-ac10 on a SMP system (Dual P3) using 768 MB Ram. Yet on startup of the system (RedHat 7.0), the system resources are almost all used. Here are the files started: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 1.1 0.0 1304 528 ? S 15:56 0:06 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 15:56 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 15:56 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU1] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [kreclaimd] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [bdflush] root 8 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:01 [kupdated] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [khubd] root 341 0.0 0.0 1364 596 ? S 16:03 0:00 syslogd -m 0 root 351 0.1 0.1 2004 1176 ? S 16:03 0:00 klogd nobody 405 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o nobody 407 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o nobody 408 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o nobody 409 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o nobody 410 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o daemon 424 0.0 0.0 1336 576 ? S 16:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 455 0.0 0.1 2192 992 ? S 16:03 0:00 xinetd -stayalive root 473 0.0 0.2 1904 1896 ? SL 16:03 0:00 ntpd root 524 0.0 0.2 3224 1552 ? S 16:03 0:00 sendmail: accepti root 540 0.0 0.0 1328 492 ? S 16:03 0:00 gpm -t ps/2 root 555 0.0 0.0 1532 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 crond xfs 594 0.1 0.4 4404 3176 ? S 16:03 0:00 xfs -droppriv -da root 630 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty2 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 631 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty3 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 632 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty4 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 633 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty5 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 634 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty6 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 677 0.1 0.1 2264 1204 tty1 S 16:04 0:00 login -- torri torri 678 0.0 0.1 2436 1416 tty1 S 16:04 0:00 -bash torri 700 0.0 0.1 2048 1080 ? S 16:04 0:00 /usr/bin/fetchmai torri 733 0.1 0.3 6588 2640 tty1 T 16:05 0:00 pine torri 734 0.0 0.0 2528 732 tty1 R 16:06 0:00 ps aux Here is the report of the memory (free -m): total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 751 662 89 0 564 18 -/+ buffers/cache: 78 672 Swap: 133 0 133 Here is the version I am using (/proc/version): Linux version 2.4.10-ac10 (root@base.torri.linux) (gcc version 3.0.2 20010908 (prerelease)) #2 SMP Wed Oct 10 14:16:51 EDT 2001 I have never run across this problem. I don't know where to begin or what information is required to help debug this. Advise would be helpful. Stephen Torri storri@ameritech.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/