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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
>
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> 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
>
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>
> Any idea regarding what's going on here will be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tuvik
>
>
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