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From: xystrus <xystrus@haxm.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory Leaking. Help!
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:28:00AM +1000, ivan wrote:
> That was 4 GB not 2.
> 
>  No, I do not. That is why I asked is there a way to find out what is 
> eating ram. I am not sure if this a leakage. I am only a paranoid 
> sysadmin. 
> 

I think you said this was a server, didn't you?

You neglected to mention that you're running X and Nautilus on this
server.  You probably don't need this stuff running on a server, and
it is chewing up a good amount of RAM.  If you don't absolutely need
X, try bringing the system up in run level 3 and see if your problem
disappears...

Memory usage (as reported below) of named looks fine.

> named      908  0.0  0.1 13956 3988 ?        S    Apr14   0:00 named -u 

This is probably a big waste:

> root      5765  0.2  0.2 17664 10584 ?       S<   09:36   0:07 /etc/X11/X 
> :0
> root      5818  0.0  0.2 40124 11068 ?       S    09:36   0:01 nautilus 
> start-he
> root      5838  0.0  0.2 40124 11068 ?       S    09:36   0:00 nautilus 
> start-he
> root      5839  0.0  0.2 40124 11068 ?       S    09:36   0:00 nautilus 
> start-he
> root      5840  0.0  0.2 40124 11068 ?       S    09:36   0:00 nautilus 

[etc. snipped]

You also seem to have someone on the system running win4lin and
multiple instances of adobe acrobat reader.  If this is really a
server, perhaps it would be better to have them run those things
elsewhere...

Hope that helps

-- 
Xy
xystrus@haxm.com

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