2.4.20-pre11: is there something wrong with memory accounting?

Anton Petrusevich (casus@att-ltd.biz)
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:38:13 +0600


Hi guys,

Look there:
10:45:38 up 1 day, 1:40, 2 users, load average: 171.04, 128.12, 79.67
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 508388 505556 2832 0 580 10492
-/+ buffers/cache: 494484 13904
Swap: 996020 379696 616324
ps axl|sort -n -r +6|head -n 1
040 33 6918 20448 9 0 589505315 589505315 nanosl SL ? 0:00 [spng]

As you can see, the server has only 512Mb ram and one of processes ate 589Mb
of RSS. How could it be? A minute ago, "free" output was basically the same,
the same amount of swap was eatten, but without such a process. I see that
behaviour quite regularly. Any thoughts?

-- 
Anton Petrusevich
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