Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:18:52 +0100 | From | Pauline Middelink <> | Subject | Re: [showstopper] Memory leak in 2.2.1 |
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On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 04:35:57PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: [snip] > Not reproducible here, so could you possibly get me a bit of info which > might help? In particular, a sample of "vmstat 1" output while this is > happening would help, as would a > > ps -lax > cat /proc/meminfo > cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-state >
A friend of mine has the same problem, the machine is slowly filling up all available memory, rendering it to the point of useless. :( He runs X and an automated backup system, so a lot of inode/fs access is in done each day.
Below are some datapoints:
# uptime 7:21pm up 4 days, 18:57, 2 users, load average: 1.07, 1.06, 1.09
#ps axl FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND 100 0 1 0 0 0 780 72 end S ? 0:03 init 40 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 end SW ? 0:11 (kflushd) 840 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 end SW ? 0:47 (kswapd) 140 1 485 1 0 0 760 0 end SW ? 0:00 (portmap) 140 0 487 1 0 0 856 36 end S S0 0:00 -dip (193 140 0 505 1 0 0 1164 0 end SW ? 0:01 (sshd) 40 0 516 1 0 0 792 0 end SW ? 0:00 (apcupsd) 140 0 527 1 0 0 804 112 end S ? 2:00 syslogd - 140 0 536 1 0 0 1036 0 end SW ? 0:00 (klogd) 140 0 547 1 0 0 1004 128 end S ? 0:05 rwhod 40 2 558 1 0 0 780 0 end SW ? 0:00 (atd) 40 0 569 1 0 0 792 116 end S ? 0:03 crond 140 0 588 1 0 0 788 72 end S ? 0:00 inetd 40 0 599 1 0 0 1196 444 end S ? 0:17 named 140 0 610 1 0 0 824 0 end SW ? 0:00 (lpd) 140 0 616 1 0 0 2616 76 end S ? 0:00 /afs1/htt 140 0 625 1 0 0 2436 96 end S ? 0:00 /afs1/htt 140 0 645 1 0 0 1108 204 end S ? 0:01 -Waiting 40 9 682 1 0 0 2904 2084 end S ? 10:00 /usr/lib/ 40 9 693 1 0 0 4424 308 end S ? 0:21 /usr/sbin 40 9 695 1 0 0 1148 0 end SW ? 0:00 (rc.news) 100 0 701 1 0 0 1148 0 end SW ? 0:00 (safe_mys 140 0 711 1 0 0 744 0 end SW ? 0:05 (gpm) 140 0 773 1 0 0 1480 0 end SW ? 0:00 (smbd) 140 0 782 1 0 0 1328 344 end S ? 0:08 nmbd -D 100 0 792 1 0 0 6168 0 end SW ? 0:00 (dtlogin) 0 401 812 1 20 19 636 104 R N ? 6564:25 ./rc5des 100 0 815 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 1 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 816 1 0 0 1480 0 end SW 2 0:00 (login) 100 0 817 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 3 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 818 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 4 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 819 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 5 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 820 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 6 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 821 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 7 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 822 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 8 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 823 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 9 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 824 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 10 0:00 (mingetty 100 0 825 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 11 0:00 (mingetty 0 0 826 1 0 0 728 0 end SW ? 0:00 (cat) 100 0 827 1 0 0 832 0 end SW ? 0:00 (mgetty) 100 0 828 1 0 0 816 0 end SW ? 0:00 (vboxgett 100 0 829 1 0 0 816 0 end SW ? 0:00 (vboxgett 140 0 832 1 0 0 720 24 end S ? 0:16 update (b 40 401 888 1 0 0 4152 0 end SW ? 0:04 (ttsessio 0 401 14069 1 0 0 2828 20 end S ? 0:00 /usr/dt/b 0 0 890 588 0 0 3928 0 end SW ? 0:00 (rpc.ttdb 140 1000 623 616 0 0 2552 40 end S ? 0:00 /afs1/htt 140 1000 9761 616 0 0 2664 8 end S ? 0:00 (httpd) 140 1000 26015 616 0 0 2664 8 end S ? 0:00 (httpd) 0 1000 658 623 0 0 23264 1600 end S ? 6:28 /afs1/pro 0 0 628 625 0 0 1040 0 end SW ? 0:00 (gcache) 140 1000 629 625 0 0 2436 0 end SW ? 0:00 (httpsd) 0 9 917 695 0 0 1196 0 end SW ? 2:30 (innwatch 100 0 723 701 0 0 5016 24 end S ? 0:00 (mysqld) 40 0 750 723 0 0 5016 24 end S ? 0:00 (mysqld) 40 0 751 750 0 0 5016 24 end S ? 0:00 (mysqld) 140 0 18300 773 0 0 1820 204 end S ? 0:02 smbd -D 140 0 24276 773 0 0 1840 204 end S ? 0:07 smbd -D 100 0 835 792 0 0 12096 1012 end S ? 13:23 /usr/bin/ 40 0 840 792 0 0 6412 0 end SW ? 0:00 (dtlogin) 0 0 17288 816 5 0 1216 548 end S 2 0:00 -bash 100 401 856 840 0 0 936 0 end SW ? 0:00 (Xsession 0 401 885 856 0 0 1144 0 end SW ? 0:00 (bash) 0 401 889 885 0 0 7084 0 end SW ? 0:00 (dtsessio 40 401 891 889 0 0 1092 64 end S ? 0:03 /usr/bin/ 0 401 899 889 0 0 9348 268 end S ? 0:53 dtwm 0 401 900 889 0 0 9232 0 end SW ? 0:01 (dtfile) 0 9 17528 917 0 0 716 0 end SW ? 0:00 (sleep) 0 0 14070 14069 0 0 2548 348 end S ? 0:06 xterm -ls 100 401 14071 14070 0 0 1204 0 end SW p2 0:00 (bash) 0 401 14082 14071 5 0 1152 280 end S p2 0:02 sh ./getp 40 401 17570 14082 8 0 1148 380 end S p2 0:00 sh ./getp 0 0 17569 17288 11 0 980 520 R 2 0:00 ps -lax 0 401 17571 17570 8 0 740 320 end D p2 0:00 date +%m%
# cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 64786432 63131648 1654784 5656576 1372160 7950336 Swap: 90472448 25145344 65327104 MemTotal: 63268 kB MemFree: 1616 kB MemShared: 5524 kB Buffers: 1340 kB Cached: 7764 kB SwapTotal: 88352 kB SwapFree: 63796 kB
# cat /proc/slabinfo slabinfo - version: 1.0 kmem_cache 28 42 tcp_tw_bucket 0 0 tcp_bind_bucket 41 127 tcp_open_request 0 0 skbuff_head_cache 0 25 sock 126 145 dquot 0 0 filp 1115 1134 signal_queue 0 0 buffer_head 1360 2646 mm_struct 69 93 vm_area_struct 1369 1827 dentry_cache 534 1736 files_cache 68 98 uid_cache 5 127 size-131072 0 0 size-65536 1 1 size-32768 0 0 size-16384 1 1 size-8192 0 0 size-4096 83 84 size-2048 142 152 size-1024 17 24 size-512 48 56 size-256 19 28 size-128 430 500 size-64 122 168 size-32 405 756 slab_cache 92 126
# cat /proc/sys/inode-state 152474 64 1 0 0 0 0
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