[KLUG Members] Memory dump?

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:23:58 -0500


> On my webserver, I have fluxbox running to view stats. I have WMMon
> running in the slit,

The what?!

> to show memory being used. as days go by, I notice
> the bar get increacingly longer

The amount of memory used is getting lower? Or the amount free is
declining?  The later is normal, and good.  Do you see paging activity;
that is what matters?

> and the system slower... 

Benchmarkably slower?

> Is there a way
> to find out whats causing this? A memory leak maybe? 

top?  If you sort by memory utilization who is on top? (No pun
intended).  

> Also, is there a
> way to flush the memory?

No, and there is never a good reason to do so.