Hi Jagadeesh, The output of "free" and "top" commands are below. Can you tell me what is going wrong?
[aravind...@localhost ~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1000 793 206 0 39 421 -/+ buffers/cache: 331 668 Swap: 1027 0 1027 top - 18:35:58 up 9:03, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.04 Tasks: 147 total, 2 running, 145 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.5%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1024020k total, 817532k used, 206488k free, 40452k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 68k used, 1052148k free, 432112k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2571 root 20 0 394m 26m 7996 S 0.7 2.7 2:30.57 Xorg 5438 aravindh 20 0 100m 18m 11m R 0.3 1.9 0:00.81 gnome-terminal 1 root 20 0 1948 740 532 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.01 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 ksoftirqd/1 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 events/0 10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 events/1 11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 64 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/0 65 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kblockd/1 67 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 68 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 133 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue 135 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd 140 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 143 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 189 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.41 kswapd0 232 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 233 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1 387 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused 426 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 ata/0 427 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.55 ata/1 428 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 432 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 433 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 434 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2 435 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.15 scsi_eh_3 450 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 kjournald 504 root 16 -4 2676 996 404 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.18 udevd 808 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kauditd 1349 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kstriped 1361 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpathd/0 1362 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpathd/1 1843 root 17 -3 12316 704 552 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 auditd 1845 root 17 -3 12232 732 628 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 audispd 1858 root 20 0 6480 5012 324 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 restorecond 1866 root 20 0 35148 2132 872 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.13 rsyslogd 1878 root 20 0 2852 352 260 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 irqbalance 1885 rpc 20 0 2336 716 552 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpcbind 1904 rpcuser 20 0 2028 740 644 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpc.statd 1932 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rpciod/0 1933 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rpciod/1 Thanks, Aravindhan On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Jagadeesh Malakannavar < [email protected]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected] <twincling%40yahoogroups.com>, Saifi Khan > <saifi.k...@...> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Aravindhan Krishnan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have installed fc9 on my PC (1GB RAM). I found that the memory usage > > > increases gradually, even if I don't run any applications. At one point > of > > Jagadeesh: Tell us if you are running anything like screenlet daemons? > Check if you have poorly written scrips in cron. > You may need to monitor top to see what is gnawing memory. > > > > time the memory usage reaches 990 MB and the system hangs when I start > any > > > application. > > > > > > [aravind...@localhost ~]$ free -m > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > > Mem: 1000 588 411 0 14 209 > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 364 635 > > > Swap: 1027 0 1027 > > > > > > Just before 5 min, used memory was 515 MB .!!! > > > > > > Any suggestions to get over this? > > > > > > > Use Gentoo Linux or openSUSE Linux 11.1 > > Jagadeesh: The best distro I suggest you is Ubuntu or sabayon. Again > Sabayon is comming from Gentoo. > Do not try Gentoo if you do not have time. Ubuntu is the best for all. > > I presonally do not like openSUSE. > > Thanks > > > -- Aravindhan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
