[Novalug] Do I have a memory leak??
Tux Subscriber Dave Aronson
tux2dave@davearonson.com
Fri Sep 26 15:54:22 EDT 2008
Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote:
> Do I have a memory leak?
Insert your own joke here, folks! ;-)
But spuriously....
> I had more memory installed, doubling what it had before.
> Big improvement -- for a few days. Now it's as before.
>
> How do I tell what the problem is and what to do about
> it?
Top or ps or any number of other "show me what's running" commands
should tell you what percent of your memory is being gobbled up by
each process. I don't recall the exact magical incantation is for ps
(man is your best friend -- does that mean you're a dog?), but "top"
clearly labels one column "%MEM" or something like that.
-Dave
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