Re: [cobalt-users] Mem Leak???

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Travis M. Best wrote:
> I have a problem on my raq4r normally It runs with about 330mb ram out
> of 512mb free but at 4:00am when this command
>
> “35 13 * * * (cd /usr/local/bin; ./chkrootkit 2>&1 | mail -s "chkrootkit
> output" root)”
>
> is executed in my cron it drops to about 12mb free and doesn’t recover
> also the same thing happens when this is executed
>
> less /home/sites/site1/bin/esubject > /home/sites/site1/bin/mailout
> less /home/sites/site1/bin/newcustomers.log >>
> /home/sites/site1/bin/mailout
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -t xxxx1@xxxxxxxx < /home/sites/site1/bin/mailout
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -t xxxx2@xxxxxxxx < /home/sites/site1/bin/mailout
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -t xxxx3@xxxxxxxx < /home/sites/site1/bin/mailout
> rm /home/sites/site1/bin/newcustomers.log -f
> rm /home/sites/site1/bin/mailout –f
>
> Dose anyone have any ideas this is a big problem and right now requires
> me to reboot the server 2 times a day. Any help would greatly be
> appreciated

Why are you rebooting?
Is there a problem other than your interpretation of memory use?
Are you sure it didn't just move some free memory to buffers or cache?
Which makes it look like there is less free memory.