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

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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
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> 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


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