Message-ID: <1100D69203AAD2118E3C00508B8B9E8A17095E@mailhost.intech.unu.edu> From: "Heupink, Mourik Jan C." <Heupink@INTECH.UNU.EDU> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:11:03 +0100 Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 6.2 suddenly starts eating memory <p>> I don't know how much help I can be. But if no one else has offered

yet... Thank you ;-)

What exactly does 'top' show is running? And what were the exact path names on the ftp server of the upgraded packages? for example: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/a1/aaa_base.rpm I assume that's the right stuff.

The 'top' screenshot may show the rogue program. First thing I'd check for is a rogue 'cron' job, especially one named 'manpath'. SuSE 6.4 had some trouble with that. These latest 6.2 packages may have the same problem.

So I found out, yes. I corrected the cron things. For now, it seems to be running fine. Swap: 120480K available, 744K used. It's not doing anything special, why should it want to use swap memory? Anyway: processes that are running include: smbd [samba], httpd [apache], hpwebjetd [with rather a lot of 'threads'], dhcpd, a perl thing, that's about it. Just a question. Is it normal to have only 3884K available on a machine that is not really doing a lot? 128MB installed, 124MB used, 4MK available. When I started up the box, it was using 54MB. This number increased a lot, but now it seems to be stabilized. Is that normal? Why does it use more and more memory upon normal circumstances?