[KLUG Members] Memory dump?

[Adam Elkins]

> > > 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?

Looks like X is takeing the most at 23.3%, .7% CPU.

> Do you see paging activity?
> 
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but the swap space is filling up
too.
> 
> > > > 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?
> 
it's one continual session.


Adam
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