[H-GEN] RedHat Linux 2.0.35 (release 5.1 (Manhattan): memory problems

[Tom Atkinson]

Hi Laurence,

To get the ball rolling, I will make the obvious-to-some suggestion that
your memory exhaustion is caused by a daemon process which has a memory
leak.

It may also be a "user" process, of course, provided it has been running
continuously (and doing things) since you booted up.  User processes which
have memory leaks are not normally too much of a problem because they
usually execute for a short while, then exit, at which time the OS frees
up the "leaked" memory.

Running without certain daemons loaded may lead you to the culprit, via
the process of elimination.  A more efficient approach may be to
exercise the daemons (much more than normal usage does) in order to see
whether the onset of your problems happens earlier.

Tom Atkinson

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Laurence J. Rietberg wrote:

> It seems I'm getting memory problems with my box.  
> 
> I have 500Mb RAM, but if I run a command like who, 2 days after rebooting
> the machine (it is okay for a while, then the problems start), I get the
> message:
> 
> who: memory exhausted