Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM

[Craig Andrews <craig [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:13, Nicola Richmond wrote:
> Having run the system monitor, it appears that my RAM is getting all
> used up and never released. At present, I am running a couple of monitor
> applets the system monitor, I have evolution open and a terminal. 73% of
> my 640 MB RAM is being used and this figure is increasing as we speak.

Run top in another terminal, and press shift-M to list by memory usage,
most at the top. Should show your culprit. I have seen this on RedHat 8
when it's checking for updates. One of the perl scripts seems to have an
almost infinite loop in there (almost because there is a terminal
condition, the system is out of RAM ;-)

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Craig Andrews <craig [at] fishbot.org.uk>

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