Memory Creeping Up

[mike newman]

there is also the pragmatic memory test: wait until your memory "fills
up", and then fire up your favourite <memory_hog_program>, then run top
(or equivalent) and see what it says about memory usage. if memory was
mysteriously liberated for the benefit of <memory_hog_program>, then you
didn't actually have a problem in the first place.

mike


On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Stefan Bruda wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> At 14:04 -0500 on 2003-9-15 Ben Ricker wrote:
>  >
>  > You need to provide much more information here. What process(es) are
>  > taking the memory that is creeping up? MySQL?
>
> ...
> Ergo, first thing to do is to make sure that the full memory is really
> full (as opposed to apparently full because of the caching system
> etc.).  One tool that lets you figure this out is xosview
> (http://xosview.sourceforge.net/); here the red part of the bar shown
> the cache memory which is not really used memory.