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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Meert on April 18, 2003, 12:45:23 PM

Title: Memory Usage
Post by: Meert on April 18, 2003, 12:45:23 PM

I've read some of the threads in the forum about high memory usage and that it's normal.
But my physical memory is at 100% and my swap is incrementing towards 65% and higher.
Is there any way to check what is using so much memory? And can I flush the memory without rebooting?
My specs:
Pentium III 600Mhz
512 mb memory

Title: Re: Memory Usage
Post by: Cory on April 18, 2003, 09:46:51 PM

If you ssh into your server just type 'top' and it will give a list of processes and how much memory they are using.

Title: Re: Memory Usage
Post by: Meert on April 19, 2003, 01:45:17 AM

These two are realy slurping memory
perl -wT /dev/fd/
/usr/bin/updatedb
if I kill the last one, my memory frees up, but it restarts automatically

I don't know what the perl command does. -w is for enabling "many useful warnings" and -T "enable tainting checks" whatever that means

Any suggestions are appreciated