Hi Forgive me if this is OT but it seems to be caused or at least made more noticable by SS especially when scanning. Mandriva 2006 LE, 2.4 Ghz Pent, 512Meg, Latest 6.3 nightly, 60,000 tracks on NAS, MySQL 5.0.18, perl 5.8.3
After a reboot top and free show about 384megs of memory free. Without SS running the free memory does seem to slowly go down but it takes a long while. With SS running, memory goes down to about 3 or 4 megs in less than 12 hours. top - 10:16:06 up 14:59, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, q0.00 Tasks: 70 total, 1 running, 69 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 3.0% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 96.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 515140k total, 512056k used, 3084k free, 98084k buffers Swap: 771080k total, 0k used, 771080k free, 176932k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2244 slimserv 15 0 56808 53m 4728 S 0.3 10.6 2:16.64 slimserver.pl 1788 mysql 16 0 32780 14m 5592 S 0.0 2.9 0:00.08 mysqld 1789 mysql 16 0 32780 14m 5592 S 0.0 2.9 0:00.00 mysqld 1790 mysql 20 0 32780 14m 5592 S 0.0 2.9 0:00.00 mysqld 1791 mysql 16 0 32780 14m 5592 S 0.0 2.9 0:00.00 mysqld free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515140 511336 3804 0 98124 177108 -/+ buffers/cache: 236104 279036 Swap: 771080 0 771080 Stopping SS and mysql only brings about 40-50 megs back to free memory according the the top and free commands. The only way to get back to the 384Megs I have after a reboot is to reboot. >From what I've read, it looks like there is no swapping going on so the OS is just using available memory since its there and its better to use it that to waste it sitting on the chip doing nothing. If thats normal and OK then sweet BUT, here is the problem. If, after a reboot, when it reports it has the most free memory I start a rescan the scan fails after about 30-60 minutes with an error in the logs "OUT OF MEMORY" and then SS crashes. Top and free show memory going down at a very quick pace while scanning until it hits 2-3 megs. I've tried other versions (older 6.3's and some of the 6.2's) and they seem to do the same so I'm starting to wonder is my system has a problem. Can anybody comment on this or offer any suggestions on how I can determine what is causing the low memory problem. I'd also be curious to see what other folks free and top output show. You can mail output to malioto (at) acpac (dot) com if you don't want to clog the list. Thank you and my SS thanks you wr420 -- wr420 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wr420's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1040 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24513 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
