Topic: High Memory Use

[Dom]

Ever since I switch to version 5.5 from 5.1.2 my memory is running at 98%.
Yesterday I upgraded the box to 350 mhz from 200 and memory to 256 from 64 thinking this was the problem.  To my surprise it was not.  So I did a search in this forums and found some #@$%@#% answers. Ok type free -m to see my real memory use.  Wow great help there, shows the same as info phpsysinfo.  There is probably a bug in this version 5.5.
I will be going back to 5.1.2.  The server is soooooooooooo slow at times it takes forever to copy a simple file.
What do I need here P4 2gigs and 1gig of memory to get this to work right?
The whole idea of Linux is that it does not require a lot of horse power to run.
I will be installing 5.1.2 when I get home tonight.
Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks,

Dom.

[Dom]

I installed 5.1.2. and the memory use was low.  However, after I upgraded Samba
it went back to 98%.  I beleive the problem is with the new version of Samba 2.2.5-4.  I will uninstall it and install 5.5 and don't upgrade samba and see what happens.
Please give me some suggestions.

Thanks,
Dom

[Jens K. Hansen]

I upgraded fra version 5.12 to 5.5. After the upgrade the server has become slooooooooow. I have made a posting about this earlier but got no reply. I plan to downgrade to version 5.12 when I get the availabel time.
Since i am a newbie to linux i have to consider what to do with my users data. Got any ideas on how to preserve user rights to mail and data when downgrading?
/jens

[Ray Mitchell]

Your sme server is working as designed !! They deliberately use available free memory.
Your slowness problems may be to do with something else.
Have a look at these threads, particularly the last one from Rich Lafferty

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14611.msg55840#msg55840

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14611.msg55840#msg55840

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14611.msg55840#msg55840

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14611.msg55840#msg55840

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Steve]

I upgraded 5.1.2 to 5.5 and used the services panel to turn off atalk, smb, ftp, ldap, & lpd.  My memory usage with 512MB of RAM is:

93.28 MB Used
418.26 MB  Free

So Samba may be one of the main programs using a lot of your memory.  It appears without running those services, the memory usage is much lower.