--- On Fri, 4/3/11, Roshan George <ros...@arjie.com> wrote: > I'm running Debian 4.0 on a VPS. Yesterday, I had this > problem where > more than two-thirds the available RAM was taken without > any programs > running. RAM use was at around 700 MB _after subtracting > cache/buffers_ > but adding up the memory use of all the processes in `ps > aux` would only > reach about 150 MB at maximum. > > Is it possible that a program I was running earlier had > memory leaks? If > so, how would I go about fixing this without rebooting the > server and > how can I identify which program exactly is causing this? I > have the > source for none of the likely culprits.
In my opinion high memory usage need not cause worry as long as swap is not touched. Did you notice any drop in performance? If not it should be ok. In top check which program uses highest memory -M key. That might give some clue. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
