Hey, > In that case it sounds to me like there is a genuine problem on my > system. Even if the swap is cached in RAM, this doesnt explain the stats > reported by top : the 8M of swap + the total of the RSS column doesnt come > close to the 229M that is reported as being used. Are there any memory > leak issues being reported with the 2.4.16 kernel?
60 processes: 59 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.8% user, 1.8% system, 0.0% nice, 97.4% idle Mem: 254036K total, 251168K used, 2868K free, 5540K buffers Swap: 262136K total, 32192K used, 229944K free, 185248K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 3403 root 19 0 1248 1248 900 R 0.5 0.4 0:00 top 2971 tech 12 0 1460 1460 872 S 0.3 0.5 0:06 cvs 911 root 19 -10 21564 6744 5464 S < 0.1 2.6 1:31 XFree86 1 root 8 0 628 520 520 S 0.0 0.2 0:04 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 kswapd 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated 8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 108 daemon 9 0 568 396 392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap 172 root 9 0 788 692 692 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 syslogd 175 root 9 0 712 472 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 klogd 191 root 9 0 832 620 620 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 gpm 196 root 9 0 644 496 496 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 inetd 202 root 9 0 700 528 528 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 lpd 209 root 9 0 1432 1092 1092 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 safe_mysqld 252 mysql 9 0 1396 792 764 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 mysqld 254 root 9 0 1128 768 768 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 sshd 266 root 7 0 864 696 632 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 cron 273 mysql 9 0 1396 792 764 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 mysqld 274 mysql 9 0 1396 792 764 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 mysqld 275 root 9 0 1208 716 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 apache 289 root 9 0 604 472 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty 290 root 9 0 604 472 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty 291 root 9 0 604 472 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty