Jostein wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Memory problems suse 9.1' on Tue, Aug 24 at 12:03:
On 24.08.04,09:50, nhaas wrote:
Hi I have a email box where the mem usage grows by 4% a day. The only thing that we can do is to reboot the box to clear out the memory? Being Linux this should not be! A friend told be it could be with the mirrored drive. [...]
Try to run "top" over some time to see what is stealing memory. To flush the memory you have to stop the processes that steals the RAM. Check for errors in /var/log/messages. Shut down unecessary programs and services. Try f.ex. Blackbox as Window Manager, instead of the heavier KDE/Gnome, if this is a dedicated email box.
Try a command line if this is a dedicated email box. GUIs are for workstations. :) Anyway, while you're running top, try pressing "G" and then "3". That'll get you to the memory usage view (sorted by memory consumption), assuming a pretty recent top. --Danny, amazed at the stuff that's in the newer "top" variants...