[Fwd: Re: [SLE] having problem with memory in suse 9.3]
suman adak wrote:
hi from siman: i am new . i installed SUSE professional 9.3. and also i have 512 memory and 40 GB. root partition is 6.6 GB where i installed SUSE. I am not running extra server or any program ,just as normal user. But i saw all time mt memory is going to be full and suddenly system goes in black screen and started stopping task........................................// freeing memory (page size)........... .......... ;;;;;;;;; after some time at goes in shoutdown mode. When i push start button it started resuming task and open previous destop and also resume the task which was running previosly. I t happens dailt 3 or 4 times? i cheacked all the things but................ Can anybody give me a solution for that? thanks suman
Can you be a bit more specific. What do you mean your memory is full? Show the output of "free -t".
Ulf
free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 482540 284732 197808 0 41560 144340 -/+ buffers/cache: 98832 383708 Swap: 1068280 0 1068280 Total: 1550820 284732 1266088
Sorry didn't see that mail. You have 197808 k bytes free. Of course it would be interesting to see which process is consuming all your memory. Or maybe the problem comes from somewhere else. I would write a short script that writes the date/time and output of "free -t" in a file executed by the cron. The running processes and their memory consumption would be nice to see too. ("ps -eF") THat way you could maybe trace down the one that causing trouble.
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 12:10 +0200, Ulf Rasch wrote:
suman adak wrote:
Can you be a bit more specific. What do you mean your memory is full? Show the output of "free -t".
Ulf
free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 482540 284732 197808 0 41560 144340 -/+ buffers/cache: 98832 383708 Swap: 1068280 0 1068280 Total: 1550820 284732 1266088
Sorry didn't see that mail.
You have 197808 k bytes free. Of course it would be interesting to see which process is consuming all your memory. Or maybe the problem comes from somewhere else. I would write a short script that writes the date/time and output of "free -t" in a file executed by the cron. The running processes and their memory consumption would be nice to see too. ("ps -eF") THat way you could maybe trace down the one that causing trouble.
Memory will be used by cache so that recently opened files can be opened quicker. This is -not- a problem and is the way that linux works. As for -all- of memory and swap being used and causing the machine to reboot there is a problem that will need to be checked by using free -t to see all memory used and also using top to see which program is using all of the memory. Also try using ksysguard to try and determine what is using all of the memory. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
If so, could you send me a copy of your kernel configuration file so I can do a diff with my own? I'm setting something wrong for USB and It would be useful to compare what I'm doing with something that works. -- JDL
John D Lamb a écrit :
If so, could you send me a copy of your kernel configuration file so I can do a diff with my own?
I'm setting something wrong for USB and It would be useful to compare what I'm doing with something that works.
Hi, Yes I've it compiled and running well. I reported the USB problem a few months ago. It doesn't come from your .conf file ! It seems that something became wrong in the loading of the USB and network modules. I added these modules to the list "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT" with YaST and everything run fine. Ask for more details if necesary, at the present time I'm not with my Linux box ! Regards. Michel.
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 04:47 pm, Catimimi wrote:
Yes I've it compiled and running well. I reported the USB problem a few months ago. It doesn't come from your .conf file ! It seems that something became wrong in the loading of the USB and network modules. I added these modules to the list "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT" with YaST and everything run fine. Ask for more details if necesary, at the present time I'm not with my Linux box !
Ok, how about more details?? Thanks
Bruce Marshall a écrit :
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 04:47 pm, Catimimi wrote:
Yes I've it compiled and running well. I reported the USB problem a few months ago. It doesn't come from your .conf file ! It seems that something became wrong in the loading of the USB and network modules. I added these modules to the list "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT" with YaST and everything run fine. Ask for more details if necesary, at the present time I'm not with my Linux box !
Ok, how about more details??
Thanks
Hi Bruce, We exchanged about this problem on July 21st. For the other people I'll tell that we have USB problems with the "kotd kernel" or with the vanilla kernel from kernel-2.6.11.4 dated 20/07/2005. I digged a little and found that some modules were no longer loaded at boot. In my case the missing modules are, in the following order : uhci_hcd e100 via686a ehci_hcd ohci_hcd In order to get this, I compared the listing of lsmod for a working kernel and a non working kernel. I added these modules with YaST : YaST -> System -> /etc/sysconfid editor -> System -> kernel -> MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT and taking care of the loading order for a working kernel, the list became : uhci_hcd e100 via686a ehci_hcd ieee1394 ohci1394 ohci_hcd capability raw1394 video1394 That's all folks ! It runs fine. Michel. PS : I compile all the new vanilla kernels without any problem. Sure it's machine dependant, the list is not the same in my summer house or for my laptop.
On Thursday 29 September 2005 09:30 am, Catimimi wrote:
Hi Bruce,
We exchanged about this problem on July 21st. For the other people I'll tell that we have USB problems with the "kotd kernel" or with the vanilla kernel from kernel-2.6.11.4 dated 20/07/2005.
Thanks for the clue.... I had already done some trial and error and got USB and the network to come up by adding modules into INITRD. Different set of modules than you had but that's to be expected. However, I failed to get VMware 5 to work on 2.6.13.2 It compiles fine and the modules load fine but the bridging of networking fails and from then on, anyone who comes near the network (like an ifconfig command) will hang and not be killable. So that's a show stopper for me and I will wait for 10.0 to come along.
Bruce Marshall a écrit :
On Thursday 29 September 2005 09:30 am, Catimimi wrote:
Hi Bruce,
We exchanged about this problem on July 21st. For the other people I'll tell that we have USB problems with the "kotd kernel" or with the vanilla kernel from kernel-2.6.11.4 dated 20/07/2005.
Thanks for the clue.... I had already done some trial and error and got USB and the network to come up by adding modules into INITRD. Different set of modules than you had but that's to be expected.
However, I failed to get VMware 5 to work on 2.6.13.2 It compiles fine and the modules load fine but the bridging of networking fails and from then on, anyone who comes near the network (like an ifconfig command) will hang and not be killable. So that's a show stopper for me and I will wait for 10.0 to come along.
Hello, I run vmware 5 with the vanilla kernel 2.6.13 without any problem, bridge networking is OK. Michel.
Catimimi wrote:
uhci_hcd e100 via686a ehci_hcd ohci_hcd
Thanks again. I'm getting there. I've got USB working at least partially by inserting ohci_hcd. I'm assuming I won't need uhci_hcd or ehci_hcd, and I should can find the other modules I need by diffing the lsmod lists. -- JDL
Catimimi wrote:
Yes I've it compiled and running well. I reported the USB problem a few months ago. It doesn't come from your .conf file ! It seems that something became wrong in the loading of the USB and network modules. I added these modules to the list "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT" with YaST and everything run fine.
Thanks. That makes sense. I'd already noted the discrepancies in lsmod but thought I must have failed to compile some prerequisite into the kernel. -- JDL
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