wr420 Wrote: > > Mem: 515140k total, 512056k used, 3084k free, 98084k > buffers > Swap: 771080k total, 0k used, 771080k free, 176932k > cached > Swap = 0. Your memory is being used mostly by cache. Ie, your kernel said "what the heck, I have 175M worth of memory just sitting here, I'll use it for a cache until some process wants it!"
That's good. It means less disk I/O. > > 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. > Linux has per-process limits on memory use (so that if a process leaks memory it won't deprive other processes of memory). It sounds like your limits are set too low. I have no idea where this is set on Mandriva. /etc/security/limits.conf, perhaps? -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24513 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
