Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:48:38PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:04:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > afirefox: After using an affected Firefox profile > > > > Ok, let's breakdown it (left is aboot, right is afirefox). > > Here we see about 2Gb of memory cons

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:04:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > afirefox: After using an affected Firefox profile > > Ok, let's breakdown it (left is aboot, right is afirefox). > Here we see about 2Gb of memory consumed: > > MemFree:32124660 kB / MemFree:30144704 kB > > Such discrepan

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:06:01PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:10:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of slabtop. > > If you're need to understand where all that memory gone - you're in need > > of proper t

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-29 Thread nito
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:10:07PM +0300, Reco wrote: > /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of slabtop. > If you're need to understand where all that memory gone - you're in need > of proper tools. I have saved the output of slabtop and /proc/meminfo for: aboot: Directly afte

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread nito
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:12:52AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Did this cause a problem, or are you chasing a number you don't > like? I avoided possible problems until now, as every time I expected to need a lot of memory and the "used memory" was larger than expected I rebooted beforehand. Also

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12020-03-28): > Is this causing a problem for you? Not understanding something is a problem by itself. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Dan Ritter
n...@dismail.de wrote: > after upgrading my hardware I started to notice what seemed like memory > leaks. Did this cause a problem, or are you chasing a number you don't like? > 650MiB(with MATE) of RAM are being used and after extended use, when closing > all > gui-programs except a termina

Re: Memory Leaks or Mem. being misreported

2020-03-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:56:37PM +0100, n...@dismail.de wrote: > But now I would often end up with something between +600MiB and +2.5GiB. > When looking at top or htop no process using nearly that much memory is > listed. /proc/meminfo (please *do not soft* it), and the output of s

Re: Memory leaks and swap

2007-06-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:50:39PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > Hi! > > Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process > with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. > Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down >

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-27 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also remember that when trying to diagnose the problem "no memory" is > normal. Linux (the kernel) will use as much memory as it can get away with > for buffers and caching. I'm hopping in at the middle here so you might > have mentioned that you're

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:10:40 -0400 (EDT) "Arthur H. Johnson II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its called atop. It records top info in a binary database every 5 minutes > or so and lets you page through it at your liesure. Nope. Took a look at atop and it is completely different than the one I

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-24 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > I know there was a program that was much like top except it recorded all > processes that had run along with their peak memory usage, CPU usage over its > run, etc. I forget the name of it. Hopefully someone knows of the utility I > am referring to an

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:17:47PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" application

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: > matt zagrabelny wrote: > > i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first > > _serious_ problem i have run into, and my guess is other people > > running unstable dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. > > but i am not experie

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On 23 Jun 2003 20:33:14 -0500 matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first _serious_ > problem i have run into, and my guess is other people running unstable > dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. Just wanted to confirm

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> note: i dont think the leak is in the normal applications as matt> mentioned in previous email, something seems to be gobling matt> up memory even before i log in to an x environment. What do you have matching /etc/rc2.d

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Igor Stroh
Hi there, On Die, 2003-06-24 at 04:13, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what > >>version of Debian are you running. > > > > > > the normal scenario is i leave my computer running at night and then i > > come down in the morning and find applicatio

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, matt zagrabelny wrote: > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" applications running than top. >

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach matt zagrabelny (Mon 23 Jun 02003 at 03:17:47PM -0500): > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" applicat

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
matt zagrabelny wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:45, Shyamal Prasad wrote: "matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what version of Debian are you runni

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
matt zagrabelny wrote: > i am running unstable. yikes! no not yikes, this is the first > _serious_ problem i have run into, and my guess is other people > running unstable dont have this problem, so i dont blame unstable. > but i am not experienced enough to debug this one on my own except > every

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:45, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what > version of Debian are you running. the n

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what version of Debian are you running. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:44, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake matt zagrabelny: > > hi, > > > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with n

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake matt zagrabelny: > hi, > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > "user" applications running than top. What do you mean