Re: [cobalt-developers] Re: Low memory warning on RaQ4

[John Thewlis <jthewlis@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce

Thanks for this.

Is there any way to get a dump of historical memory usage so I can try 
to see what is causing the high memory drain, and what processes were 
running at the time?

Thanks

John

On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 15:49 Europe/Dublin, Bruce Timberlake 
wrote:

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> > I am receiving a low memory error each morning at 4:15am. The box
> > is a Cobalt RaQ4r with 512MB RAM.
>
> Most likely it is logrotate/split_logs that is causing the problem.
> If you only get the one message, and not continual all day, I
> wouldn't worry about it.  The log splitter is a notorious hog, and if
> it's running for more than 15 minutes (enough that Active Monitor
> 'catches' it), you must have some fairly large log files.
>
> > running top does not give any pointers as to what is causing the low
> > memory error?
>
> By the time you're checking it, the high memory use is over...  if you
> were logged in at 4am and running 'top' you'd see it all happening.
>
> - --
> Bruce Timberlake
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