OK, thats interesting - now to find the SNMP string for memory used....
> Maybe you're measuring the wrong thing...
> Memory unused is memory wasted, so linux uses spare memory as a disk
> cache.
>
> socks:/junk# free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1011 877 133 0 0 476
> -/+ buffers/cache: 400 610
> Swap: 964 229 734
>
> So theres 964 Mb of swap, of which 229 is used. Theres 1011 Mb of memory,
> of which 877 is used and 133 is free. 476 Mb of that used memory is disk
> cache that will be freed up if the system starts to need it. So if the
> disk
> cache was freed there would be 400 Mb used and 610 Mb free.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Dobbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2005 2:04 p.m.
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Odd memory usage
>
>
>><snip>
>>>
>> ps -ef will give you a list of what's running. Test ni and out of this
>> period, and subtract one from the other?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Steve
>> PS. options growright keeps you saner!
>
> Yeah, I will implement growright now as it will make it a bit easier on
> the
> brain. I have found the culprit as soon as I run a tar command to back up
> my
> maildirs the free memory drops tp 14MB! I've upgraded to tar 1.14 and that
> has made no difference, would I be better to change toa different method
> of
> backup such as CPIO (although I have no idea how to use it!).
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