[KLUG Members] Memory dump?

Adam Elkins members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:39:19 -0500


The 'slit' is to fluxbox(blackbox) as the panel is to gnome.
It's where the dockapps sit. It gets noticably slower, but doesn't seem
to have an effect on Apaches' preformance... I'm mostly just curious.
Why is it this happens?


Adam E


 as thOn Wed, 2003-12-10 at 18:23, Adam Williams wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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