Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:14:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Daniel G. Linder" <> |
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Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > My box is now up two days, mostly calculating povray images. > Povray has ended (no such job anymore) > > /proc/meminfo says: > > MemTotal: 31196 kB > MemFree: 1752 kB > MemShared: 9008 kB > Buffers: 500 kB > Cached: 6128 kB > SwapTotal: 21484 kB > SwapFree: 18128 kB > > as you can see: I am missing about 15MBytes... > Where did they gone...sniff ;-)
Meino,
Not knowing what version of the other running programs are, it might be a good idea to see if going into single user mode (telinit 1) clears up the memory. If killing off one of those "extra" processes frees the memory, try tracking down which daemon (or run-away process) it was and report to the proper maintainers. If you kill everything else off and /proc/meminfo still says you lost 15MB, then we are probably dealing with a kernel issue. Try rebooting and verify that it sees all the memory when it comes up. Can you try re-running the povray for another bit and re-create the problem? If the system goes "un-used" for the same ammount of time, does it still eat memory? How about running a good benchmarking program (iozone, bonnie, "cd /usr/src/linux ; make -j bzlilo" :) ) and see if they show loss of memory after being run.
Good luck on tracking this bug.
Dan
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