On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 at 12:10pm, Trevor Morrison wrote > I am experiencing a severe memory leak in my RH 7.1 system 2.4.17 > modular kernel.. I will chew up about 720 M in about 6 hours. I was > wondering how many instances of dumper and taper need to be running when > amanda is started from a cron job. I currently show 2 tapers and 4 > dumpers as output from the ps -aux command. Does any one have a quick > and dirty way of seeing what is hogging all the memory? Any help is > appreciated.
Just how is the memory being used? What is the output of 'free'? I'm betting that the majority of the usage is 'cached', which is good. Linux caches info in memory in the hopes that it will need it again. If the memory is needed for actual in-use data, the cached stuff is thrown out. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
