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 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
