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RE: [SLE] Memory problems suse 9.1
  • From: "nhaas" <nhaas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:00:07 -0700
  • Message-id: <002901c48bea$581fe570$6401a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

From: Ken Schneider [mailto:suselist@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:31 AM
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] Memory problems suse 9.1

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:50, nhaas wrote:
> Hi I have a email box where the mem usage grows by 4% a day. The only
> that we can do is to reboot the box to clear out the memory? Being Linux
> this should not be! A friend told be it could be with the mirrored drive.
> This box runs POSTFIX with 600 users (local yuk!), apache2, rysnc (not in
> current use for SuSE update site).
> 2 gig ram, 2 80 gig SIDE hardware mirror, 2 - 200 gig for backup and
> drives.
> When the box is first started you see 600 meg of ram being used, now its
> 1.3 gig being used. What can I do to see what is taking the memory? And
> can I do to flush the memory usage, We also get about 7 thousand emails
> day. 70% spam of course..thanks ASSP.
> Thanks for the help
> Neal

This is normal memory usage, the system is cacheing filesytem use and
storing it in ram.

If the usage grows at a much faster rate then become concerned.

So when does the memory ever get released. It just grows and grows and
grows. Out of 2 gigs I have 19,124k free and starting on swap 8k used.
Should I not be alarmed on this? An old UNIX guy is telling me that there is
a memory leak somewhere....

Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
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