Memory Creeping Up

Patrick Larkin yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Sep 15 13:50:01 2003


On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 03:36 PM, Ben Ricker wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:26, Patrick Larkin wrote:
>> On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 03:04 PM, Ben Ricker wrote:
>>
>>> You need to provide much more information here. What process(es) are
>>> taking the memory that is creeping up? MySQL?
>>
>> I just took a screen shot of TOP and will check it tomorrow to see
>> which processes are growing.  I'm just looking at the line:
>>
>> Mem:   190592K av,   92396K used,   98196K free
>>
>> The "Free" line was at 4000K this morning.
>
>> mysqld seems to stay at 14568 and even when its hit I don't notice it
>> go up.  There are only 3 small databases running on it at the moment.
>> I just didn't expect to see the memory fluctuate like that.  This 
>> setup
>> was previously running on MacOS X and I didn't see this issue.
>
> You still have plenty of memory left.

Well, like I said, the "Free" portion was at 4000K this morning after 
the first weekend of service.  I'm paranoid that the machine will come 
to a halt.  I suppose I'll just keep a close eye.  Thanks again.

Patrick