On 04-03-2011 10:37, Roshan George wrote: > Hello, everyone, > > I'm running Debian 4.0 on a VPS. Yesterday, I had this problem where > more than two-thirds the available RAM was taken without any programs > running. RAM use was at around 700 MB _after subtracting cache/buffers_ > but adding up the memory use of all the processes in `ps aux` would only > reach about 150 MB at maximum. How did you subtract the cache/buffers ? Typically Linux is quite liberal with using memory as is available. Hence a linux system running for a while will not report very low total memory usage.
I would not worry too much about this. > Is it possible that a program I was running earlier had memory leaks? If > so, how would I go about fixing this without rebooting the server and > how can I identify which program exactly is causing this? I have the > source for none of the likely culprits. > Any memory leaks the program might have had are now gone with the program no longer running. One crude way I find useful to identify runaway programs is to track memory usage growth. Run top and sort by memory (press M I think) and watch it for a while. > Regards, _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
