[ale] System losing memory

[cfowler]

With top -b he sees it all so I don't think it is on another page.

I had this problem in the past.  It turned out to be a driver that was
not doing a kfree() for each kmalloc().  The only fix was to restart the
system to free the memory.  

If you go into single user mode do you get that memory used back?

Try pmap and see what each process is using.


On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 08:40 -0400, Warren Myers wrote:
> top only shows the most heavy cpu usage, to the best of my knowledge
> 
> so, if you have a process that's eating RAM, but not any CPU time, it
> could easily be on the next page of output
> 
> try a 'ps aux | cut -b 20- | sort -r' and see if there's anything
> chewing gobs o' RAM 
> 
> that should show from RAM on out of a ps aux listing, sorted from high
> to low
> 
> WMM
> 
> On 5/2/07, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>         I have a Centos 4.4 system that periodically runs out of
>         memory and swap: 
>         
>         Tasks:  70 total,   1 running,  69 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0
>         zombie
>         Cpu(s):  2.1% us,  1.1% sy,  0.0% ni, 81.2% id, 15.6%
>         wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
>         Mem:    483356k total,   468160k used,    15196k
>         free,    10132k buffers 
>         Swap:  1048568k total,  1048568k used,        0k free,
>         365392k cached
>         
>         I can't even run a cc command.  The -b output of top shows
>         nothing with
>         a lot of memory, named has 38 M and one other task has 12 M
>         and nothing 
>         else is over 10 M.
>         
>         Is there something I can run that might tell me who's got all
>         the
>         memory/swap?
>         
>         Is there a way to hide a process that top won't display?
>         
>         Thanks,
>         Jim.
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