PostgreSQL used to have a memory leak that would take all 2gigs of ram from my machine. I wrote a perl script that filled an array with 'A''s infinitely, until it ran out of memory once it crashed, it gave all that memory back. Ran it as a cron job every half hour.
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 09:12, Bob Crandell wrote: > That shows how much memory each program is using but it doesn't add up to the amount > of memory being used. There is over a half Gig of RAM and 96 M of swap. It all > gets used up just before it goes down. > > Is there another utility? > > Thanks > > Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > > > >Bob Crandell wrote: > > > >> I have a client with a Linux server running Samba. Something is > >> filling up memory and the swap space. This is dragging down to the > >> point where it's unusable. They have to reboot almost every day. > >> > >> My question is how do I find out what is taking up all that memory? > > > >Run top, then type "M" (capital M). Watch the size column. > > > > > > -- Christopher Maujean IT Director, Premierelink Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.premierelink.com/ 541-344-8575x305 PGP: --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.keyserver.net/ KeyID: EFAF4176 Fingerprint: 55E6 4DE1 D7D3 361E F265 C094 46F2 7B62 EFAF 4176 ---------------------------------------------------------------
