I honestly have not seen this as an issue before, but i usually poked my machines with a sick until they rebooted once a week because of what i was doing to them.
the servers i have running run for a month at a time without a reboot. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Michael Butash<mich...@butash.net> wrote: > Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu > 32bit or 64? I've literally had issues with it that may or may not be > particularly ubuntu issues back to 7.04 that I first noticed. The only > thing really in common system-wise is the hardware, and I somewhat > suspect it's Nvidia driver related, but nothing really indicates any > particular app. My primary desktop I use heavily just about anything, > but I have another system that's sole purpose is to play movies and > music on my TV I do almost nothing with that experiences the same > issues, NVidia card as well. With compiz or without this happens. Only > thing I haven't tried is running the NV drivers, but I rely on the > acceleration far too much on both systems. > > What I have noticed is there are no direct applications hogging memory > via top, rather it seems virtual memory ends up simply taking over all > physical memory and keeping it as "inactive" via "vmstat -a". Signs of > this include firefox flipping out, rendering/scaling video larger than > default, and just anything else that requires excessive memory use > having issues. I graph my physical memory usage via snmp, and I can > pretty accurately gauge how long I have until I need to do a hard reboot > to reclaim the "inactive" memory. It mostly works even memory starved > in this condition, just limits my usage, and even restarting x doesn't > help. Interestingly enough, neither system ever swaps at all... > > Has anyone successfully ever dealt with an issue like this killing > virtual memory? I really can't imagine I'm the only one... I've hunted > far and wide of the great interweb for a way to release the "inactive" > memory, as I'd even just go so far as to purge it once a day via cron if > I had to, but I can find nothing of forcefully clearing inactive/dirty > virtual memory space. I've seen others complain of the same behavior, > but have only seen the same rhetoric that "trust linux virtual memory > behavior, that's what it's supposed to do". Act like a stupid windoze > me install and reboot daily? I think not... > > -mb > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
