On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 12:57:40PM +0000, Ghins Mathai wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having a strange problem with my Linux server. Once in every
> 3-4 days, it starts giving "Out of memory" messages on the console
> and freezes up (I can only ping it, no telnet/ftp...). My guess is
> that there is some process executing with root privileges that is
> malloc'ing memory but not freeing it.
>
> I want to know whether there is any way by which I can know which
> was the offending process when I reboot it.
Run a cron job that lists the top 10 memory hoggers on your system
using ps. At the reboot point, it's too late.
-Arun
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