On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu 8.10 and everything is hunky dory > except for the fact that something is slowly eating all my RAM. After > awhile the computer starts thrashing. After a few minutes of that, the > OOM killer comes in and starts killing things left and right, until the > system is essentially dead. At that point I have to hard reset the > machine. I've looked at the system while it was swapping and didn't see > what I'd expect. > > That is, I didn't see anything using considerable RAM. No program in top > is listed as having even modest RAM allocated. Yet the free memory > continues to drop, and the swap usage continues to rise, until swap runs > out and the system comes crashing down. > > Since it doesn't seem to be a program I can inspect in top, does that > mean the kernel has some kind of memory leak? How can I inspect the > memory usage of the kernel and/or find the program or module or whatever > that is eating my RAM and not returning it? > > -- > Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net > > There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the > right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. > -- Johann Sebastian Bach > Is there an earlier kernel you can use? I assume you're sorting in top by memory used? How much memory do you have? You might want to look into swapd and "and" (autonice daemon) as a temporary measure. I use to rely on those when a left over Netscape browser could eat your resources for lunch. swapd will allocate extra swapfiles on the fly if you're running too low on swap. Cheers, Scott Edwards /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
