[KLUG Members] Memory dump?

[Adam Williams]

> > 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?

Hard to say without any details.

Can you run top/gtop and sort by memory usage and see what the top
process is?

Do you see paging activity?


> > > 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).  
> > >SNIP
> I have the same issue
> I am running RH9 with the KDE desktop I have 368mg of RAM and I run KDE
> system gaurd to monitor the system and the memory just keeps increasing
> like thier is a leak or that it is not being released back to the system

"free" memory will eventually decline to zero; this is normal healthy
system behaviour.  Only paging activity indicates memory exhaustion.

> after a program is closed it gets to the point were programs wont even
> open anymore and I have to reboot this usually takes about 8 days 

Do you log out and back in, or is this one continual session?