Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3i Memory Leak?

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:07:13AM -0500, Debbie Doerrlamm wrote:
: I have 30 on the box, off the top of my head.. 8 are not live, 1 gets major
: traffic, 2 get nice traffic, the rest get a few hits a day..
: I haven't enough experience at all this quite yet to diagnose.. but would
: be willing to monitor and report in for comparison..

They you would have to monitor all the processes in your machine that might
use memory.  This includes an task that runs. 
 
: (Jan 2000 stats off the shared machine..)
: (live on Cobalt) Total data transferred: 13 176 Mbytes (2 799 Mbytes)
: (live on Cobalt) Total data transferred 1 054 Mbytes (236 334 kbytes)
: (live on Cobalt) Total data transferred: 834 019 kbytes (264 366 kbytes)
: 
: No PHP or SSH yet either.. just standard setup with the OS2 and security
: patches
: 
: I've yet to get any stats package running here yet.. I'm shooting for April
: 1st on that..

Expect for the one that runs on the Cobalt RaQ, plus the monitoring of the
system, plus cron tasks, there is plenty running on it now :)
 
: >	I obviously missed the first part of your post. Why are you leaking memory?
: >	Seeing that you have half of your ram left after the OS, you probably
: >aren't hurting immediately, but can you swing the problem by us again?
: 
: > >Mem:  128180K av, 122140K used,   6040K free,  53452K shrd,  22596K buff
: 
: it's not usually that high..  6040k free is the one we are discussing
: right?? generally its down in the 2000 -3000k range..
: 
: A lazy Sun 11 AM it shows 3000-4000k free I watched it rise as high as
: 7400k .. I have to do more reading on this to get a better hold of what I'm
: seeing..

But there is a mis-understanding of what all that means.  Just because it 
is not mark as free does not mean it is available.

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net