After following this post intense I was wondering if somebody could sum up the essential tools for watching memory use in linux and finding the memory eater in a system (yes, when I start X i've got mem problems too...)
I've seen so far: "free" ? "top" ? "ps aux" ? (ps -eF u) anybody knows a good 'article', forum post, or reference for these? (and yeah, I know man ef) Jan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2004 18:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Memory is getting eaten Afer trying every kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.4.24 there was no improvement everyone has the sam problem. So i re-emerged my old 2.4.20-r7 and everything was back like it should. My memory stay low, but i got that security problem. glad i have a good hardware firewall. So now its time to find some good information about 2.6. Patrick free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 512472 381752 130720 0 33244 188300 -/+ buffers/cache: 160208 352264 Swap: 522072 0 522072 On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:14:25 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > After switching from kernel 2.4.20 to 2.4.22 my memory seems to be always te be taken for 100% even when X just is started. > According to Gnome porocess monitor X has used 278 mb. > Before i had never more then 300000 used and my swap was never used. > What can i do to find where the problem is > > free gives me > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513252 507752 5500 0 2440 32348 > -/+ buffers/cache: 472964 40288 > Swap: 522072 79060 443012 > > (and i deleted my old kernel) > > TIA > Patrick -- "Live long and prosper, Spock." -- T'Pau "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain, and my friend." -- Spock Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list