On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 11:14, Keith Winston wrote:
> Camron W. Fox wrote:
> > After six hours of not touching the machine:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cwfox]$ free
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 1030512 739676 290836 0 17408
> > 611360
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 110908 919604
> > Swap: 2040244 0 2040244
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cwfox]$
> >
> > At the end of 12 hours (untouched), memory use is above 95% and I
> > haven't even run an "ls".
>
> While you may not have done anything, Linux is never sleeping, it is
> likely that after 12 hours, an updatedb was run to reindex your locate
> database, countless other cron jobs were run and more stuff was given to
> the disk cache.
>
> Does the machine ever lock up or refuse to run something after 12 hours?
>
> The Linux VM (which I know little about) was overhauled around 2.4.10,
> but I would not worry unless you are seeing other symptoms. Try running
> some memory hog programs like openoffice and mozilla after 12 hours
> and recheck your memory. You should see some reallocation.
>
> Best Regards,
> Keith
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Sorry. I failed to mention what happens afterwards. Yes, the system
comes to a grinding halt if I try to run apps like mozilla or openoffice
and makes operation untenable. I've double checked /etc/cron.d to make
sure nothing unnecessary is running. It acts as if reallocation is not
happening.
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