Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:51:09 +1000 (EST) | | From | ivan <> | | Subject | Re: Memory Leaking. Help! |
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 10 Days ago I installed DNS and DHCPd servers from RedHat and noticed that > > "top" shows the amount of consumed memory is slowly and constantly > > growing. Machine became unstable and a few users complained that their > > files disappeared. ( we have good backup ). I re-booted 4 days ago and now > > it looks it is doing it again. Could this be BIND? > > Wildly improbable. Slow shifts in memory usage occur naturally so don't be > totally mislead by it. Named for example will grow and shrink over time > according to what it has cached and what people asked for.
But it took half of my swap (4GB) as well. A bit too much for a little bind. How to explain this?
> > > 1) Could you please advice how can I detect memory leaks. ( I guess it is > > not an easy task on production server. > > > > 2) Is there a tool which I can use to log memory usage > > ps, looking in /proc at the address space maps too. > > What you almost certainly want to do first is run memtest86 as suggested > by others. > >
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