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Re: Strange memory consumption



On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, tuvia beker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing a very strange phenomenon on a RH4.1 system.
> No heavy processes are running, yet memory consumption is soaring, and the
> load is above 6. 
> In the process table, there's no process consuming a lot of memory, and
> the sum of memorychunks used by processes is tiny compared to the total
> memory use reported. Here's what 'top' output looks like (sorted by mem
> usage):

Tuvik, can you send over more details ??  (like ps -xa ; mount) and all
kinds of pertinent info. Is this machine using NFS ??  Do you have any
other details about it ??  That matlab process, is it running Ok ?

--Ariel



> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 11:54am up 4 days, 15:32, 6 users, loadaverage: 8.19, 7.76, 6.88 
> 62 processes: 58 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 3 stopped 
> CPU states: 1.1% user, 1.1% system, 2.1% nice, 97.9% idle 
> Mem:  257160K av, 213624K used, 43536K free, 41032K shrd, 76224K buff
> Swap: 782224K av, 0K used, 782224K free 98096K cached
> 
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU  %MEM TIME COMMAND 
> 26992 ranit  0 0 10084 9.8M 4168  S 	0   0.0   3.9 0:45 matlab 
> 27567 ranit 10 0  6644 6644 3132  S 	0   0.7   2.5 0:18 xemacs
> 3529 root   0 0  2124 2124 1336  S	0   0.0   0.8 0:14 xterm 
> 26938 ranit  0 0  1940 1940  828  S 	0   0.0   0.7 0:03 rxvt 
> 26905 root   0 0  1788 1788 1444  S 	0   0.0   0.6 0:00 xdm 
> 27107 ranit  0 0  1700 1700  828  S 	0   0.0   0.6 0:09 rxvt 
> 27923 ranit  0 0  1700 1700  828  S 	0 0.0   0.6 0:00 rxvt 
> 26922 ranit  0 0  1644 1644 1312  S 	0   0.0   0.6 0:00 xmailbox 
> 26919 ranit  6 6  1584 1584 1252  S N   0   0.0   0.6 0:00 xload 
> 26921 ranit  0 0  1568 1568 1256  S 	0   0.0   0.6 0:00 xclock 
> 26908 ranit  0 0  1308 1308  956  S 	0   0.0   0.5 0:03 fvwm95-2
> 327 root   0 0  1164 1164 1028  S 	0   0.0   0.4 0:00 xdm
> 3538 oran   0 0  1064 1064  624  S 	0   0.0   0.4 0:01 tcsh 
> 27108 ranit  0 0  1044 1044  628  S 	0   0.0   0.4 0:00 tcsh 
> 26914 ranit  0 0  1000 1000  800 S 	0   0.0   0.3 0:00 FvwmTaskBar 
> 26913 ranit  0 0   992  992  816  S 	0   0.0   0.3 0:00 FvwmButtons
> 27924 ranit  1 0   972  972  628  S 	0   0.0   0.3 0:00 tcsh
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Any idea regarding what's going on here will be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tuvik
> 
> 

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