I think every day 'top' command will help to find out which is the run away
process
Murali
-----Original Message-----
From: Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 April 2000 16:37
Subject: Re: [LIH] Linux blues
>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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