Also sprach matt zagrabelny (Mon 23 Jun 02003 at 03:17:47PM -0500): > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" applications running than top. > > so i believe that a daemon process has a memory leak. however, top > doesnt appear to have any processes with large (> 20M) amounts of memory > allocated to them. > > my questions are these: > > 1) what is a good way (besides top) to track memory usage? i have also > used gnome-system-monitor. > > 2) what is a _good_ way to selectively disable daemons in /etc/init.d/ > from starting on boot?
Describe your system? What cpu? How much memory? What is the output of: cat /proc/meminfo What are the applications that you automatically start? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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