On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On 12/13/2004 08:22:28 AM, Satish Balay wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Divided By 0 wrote: > > > > > So is there anything that can show me what's eating my system up? > > Anything > > > syspicious I could check? > > > > For one - 'free' is a better tool to measure memory usage. And try > > the following: to see if the memory usage (used -/+ buffers/cache) > > decreases: > > > > free > > rm /etc/prelink.cache > > /etc/cron.daily/prelink > > free > > Rather than remove /etc/cron.daily/prelink - copy it outside of /etc/ > cron.daily so it can be restored if it's not the issue. I wasn't sugesting removing /etc/cron.daily/prelink. If you look at the above commands - they are: - remove /etc/prelink.cache - run /etc/cron.daily/prelink (which should do a full prelink - and recreate /etc/prelink.cache) Ideally the memory usage (used [-/+ buffers/cache] + swap) shouldn't change with the above commands - but it does!. I have no good explanation for this behavior (other than the speculation that the kernel uses some memory - and this is released on a BIG I/O operation) Satish
