storri@ameritech.net (Stephen Torri) writes:
> 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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