I tried the ps -aux. It was really easy when I didn't have much of anything running to keep up with it, but none of the programs would show any increase in memory as time passed. What's more, especially after running X, I would notice that not very much memory is freed up. Btw, I use startx. Check 'free' before running X and again afterwards, best if done after a clean boot. Same number of processes, but more memory not available.
What I really need is a better memory utility. Like the first post I made here, even if you add the columns in ps and top, they won't add up to the total that they report as being used. Skip On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:51, Ted Cook wrote: > Skip, > > You should be able to determine what process is causing the problem by > using 'ps -aux' to track the memory usage of the processes. As the day > goes by, the memory used by the offending process should grow. > > -Ted > > > Subject: Re: ps, top and free From: Skip Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > > PROTECTED] Organization: Date: 05 Jun 2003 18:02:46 -0400 Reply-To: [EMAIL > > PROTECTED] On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 17:26, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > >>> Skip Morrow wrote: > >> > >>>> > Quick and dirty: Why don't the memory usages reported for each program > >>>> > from 'ps -aux' and/or 'top' (even after pressing the "H") add up to the > >>>> > totals as being reported by 'top' and/or 'free'? Try it and you'll see > >>>> > what I mean. > >> > >>> > >>> Variety of reasons: > >>> > >>> Some processes share memory. Different instances of the same program > >>> will share code pages. Different programs entirely will share code > >>> pages when they use the same libraries. Multi-threaded programs will > >>> share both code and data pages. This sharing makes the sum of the > >>> memory sizes too big. > >>> > >>> The X server will mmap your video card's memory, so its size appears > >>> considerably bigger than it really is. > >>> > >>> You may also be looking at the wrong piece of output from 'free' or > >>> 'top', entirely. The "total" memory use reported by 'free' includes > >>> application memory use as well as disk buffers and cache. > >>> > >>> > > > > > > Well, here's the problem (I should probably start a new thread for this, > > because it may turn out to be very eye-opening) > > > > I had noticed that I didn't have much free memory a few days ago (I had > > 384M RAM installed) so I went and bought another 256 and installed it > > (totalling 640M) Restarted the computer and saw that I was only using > > 20% of the RAM. But after a few hours, I noticed that the little gnome > > bar graph was getting pretty high, so I rechecked and it was up to 85%. > > And a few hours later, it was over 95% and I had started using swap > > space. So I thought "memory leak". I started shutting down everything > > I could, rebooted a lot, and still find that no matter what I do, the > > computer slowly eats up more and more RAM (10-20 megs per hour). I even > > turned off every service, rebooted (less than 30 total processes > > running) and still had the RAM slowly getting used up. I tried it with > > kernel 2.4.20-18.9 (the newest, and the other kernels that have been > > released since RH9.0 came out. As it is now, I am rebooting once or > > twice a day to keep the RAM usage down, which is mildly inconvenient :( > > > > Anyone have any ideas here? > > > > Skip > > > > -- > Ted Cook > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wildopensource.com > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
