Memory free report error (kernel-2.4.10-ac10)

Stephen Torri (storri@ameritech.net)
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:10:58 -0400 (EDT)

I have installed and used kernel-2.4.10-ac10 on a SMP system (Dual P3)
using 768 MB Ram. Yet on startup of the system (RedHat 7.0), the system
resources are almost all used. Here are the files started:

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 1.1 0.0 1304 528 ? S 15:56 0:06 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [keventd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 15:56 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 15:56 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU1]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [kswapd]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [kreclaimd]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [bdflush]
root 8 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:01 [kupdated]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [khubd]
root 341 0.0 0.0 1364 596 ? S 16:03 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 351 0.1 0.1 2004 1176 ? S 16:03 0:00 klogd
nobody 405 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o
nobody 407 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o
nobody 408 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o
nobody 409 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o
nobody 410 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o
daemon 424 0.0 0.0 1336 576 ? S 16:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 455 0.0 0.1 2192 992 ? S 16:03 0:00 xinetd -stayalive
root 473 0.0 0.2 1904 1896 ? SL 16:03 0:00 ntpd
root 524 0.0 0.2 3224 1552 ? S 16:03 0:00 sendmail: accepti
root 540 0.0 0.0 1328 492 ? S 16:03 0:00 gpm -t ps/2
root 555 0.0 0.0 1532 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 crond
xfs 594 0.1 0.4 4404 3176 ? S 16:03 0:00 xfs -droppriv -da
root 630 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty2 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 631 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty3 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 632 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty4 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 633 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty5 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 634 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty6 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt
root 677 0.1 0.1 2264 1204 tty1 S 16:04 0:00 login -- torri
torri 678 0.0 0.1 2436 1416 tty1 S 16:04 0:00 -bash
torri 700 0.0 0.1 2048 1080 ? S 16:04 0:00 /usr/bin/fetchmai
torri 733 0.1 0.3 6588 2640 tty1 T 16:05 0:00 pine
torri 734 0.0 0.0 2528 732 tty1 R 16:06 0:00 ps aux

Here is the report of the memory (free -m):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 751 662 89 0 564 18
-/+ buffers/cache: 78 672
Swap: 133 0 133

Here is the version I am using (/proc/version):

Linux version 2.4.10-ac10 (root@base.torri.linux) (gcc version 3.0.2
20010908 (prerelease)) #2 SMP Wed Oct 10 14:16:51 EDT 2001

I have never run across this problem. I don't know where to begin or what
information is required to help debug this. Advise would be helpful.

Stephen Torri
storri@ameritech.net

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