On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Roshan George <ros...@arjie.com> wrote: > Hello, everyone, > > 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.
When I cause a memory leak I know what to do. top is good enough for me. I never use valgrind of any of the profiling tools. In your case I wonder what is going on. The only big memory hog I have seen the 7z program from p7zip or the firefox browser which does not use up half as much. Other than that what you report is quite weird. I know that Linux has various kinds of bugs but never seen or heard what you are saying. Perhaps it is something wrong with your setup? Just guessing. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com gir...@gayatri-hitech.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
