Re: Memory Leaking. Help!

[ivan]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 10 Days ago I installed DNS and DHCPd servers from RedHat and noticed that 
> > "top" shows the amount of consumed memory is slowly and constantly 
> > growing. Machine became unstable and a few users complained that their 
> > files disappeared. ( we have good backup ). I re-booted 4 days ago and now 
> > it looks it is doing it again. Could this be BIND?
> 
> Wildly improbable. Slow shifts in memory usage occur naturally so don't be 
> totally mislead by it. Named for example will grow and shrink over time 
> according to what it has cached and what people asked for.

But it took half of my swap (4GB) as well. A bit too much 
for a little bind. How to explain this?

> 
> > 1) Could you please advice how can I detect memory leaks. ( I guess it is 
> > not an easy task on production server.
> > 
> > 2) Is there a tool which I can use to log memory usage 
> 
> ps, looking in /proc at the address space maps too.
> 
> What you almost certainly want to do first is run memtest86 as suggested
> by others. 
> 
> 

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