Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Danny Sauer <suse-linux-e.suselists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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...