On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kirk wrote:
> Is there a runaway process? What does top show?
>
8:17am up 22:58, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.16, 0.11
76 processes: 74 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 3.9% user, 5.9% system, 0.0% nice, 90.1% idle
Mem: 971600K av, 922356K use
run 'date>>/tmp/top.log;top -b -n 1>>/tmp/top.log' every 5 minutes from
cron and you will have a log you can review after thsi happens again.
Then you can at least determine whether or not it's the kernel leaking
memory, or some other program.
I'm not sure how to get top to sort results by memor
try these links for updated kernel RPMS:
Offical RedHat 2.2.16 Kernel look in the directory for you cpu class ie
i686, i586, etc:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.1/
Excellent Contributed Kernel 2.2.17
ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.x-mycontrib/RPMS/
Kirk
> Is there any patches,
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> > Lack of memory, It is not allowing one to shutdown the and restart
> > through OS, So I need to switch off and on, whenever it happens.
>
> How do you know it's out of memory? Is there swap being used?
In my mail I clearly mentioned the type of m
Are you sure that the system's memory is good? I would suggest the
memtest86 program. A simple search of freshmeat should reveal it for you.
Jamin W. Collins
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From: Kiran Kumar M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:59 AM
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Su
> Lack of memory, It is not allowing one to shutdown the and restart
> through OS, So I need to switch off and on, whenever it happens.
How do you know it's out of memory? Is there swap being used?
> It is very obvious that, the process which were utilized memory is not
> realsed completly, or
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kiran Kumar M wrote:
> I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp
First, I'd update that kernel to a more recent version. Get one from
either a 6.2 or 7.0 Red Hat mirror. (Though, if you grab the package from
Red Hat 7.0, you'll also have to update rpm...)
> process. It is
Is there a runaway process? What does top show?
Kirk
>At 06:29 PM 10/16/00 +0530, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp, for the services like DNS,
>Mail, and Web, etc. I am forced to restart the system for every 7 to 10
>days because of lack of memory or system is not a
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kiran Kumar M spewed into the bitstream:
KKM>
KKM>Hi,
KKM>
KKM>I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp, for the services like DNS,
KKM>Mail, and Web, etc. I am forced to restart the system for every 7 to 10
KKM>days because of lack of memory or system is not able to handle