LinuxQuestions.org
Review your favorite Linux distribution.
Go Back   LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Software
User Name
Password
Linux - Software This forum is for Software issues.
Having a problem installing a new program? Want to know which application is best for the job? Post your question in this forum.

Notices


Reply
  Search this Thread
Old 10-25-2004, 07:23 PM   #1
mikedeatworld
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Farmington Michigan
Distribution: UBUNTU - Slackware - SuSE 9.1 - Knoppix - Fedora
Posts: 828

Rep: Reputation: 30
SuSE Pro - Mem leak?


Not sure if I have a Memory leak, but top reports high mem usage even when idle:

Z,B Global: 'Z' change color mappings; 'B' disable/enable bold
top - 08:21:07 up 30 min, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.26, 0.34
Tasks: 82 total, 1 running, 80 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.7% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 386448k total, 377876k used, 8572k free, 7504k buffers
Swap: 772992k total, 4k used, 772988k free, 185768k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5292 miked 15 0 30260 16m 26m S 2.3 4.3 0:01.10 kdeinit
4030 root 15 0 97132 25m 76m S 2.0 6.7 1:29.51 X
4595 miked 15 0 57244 37m 34m S 1.0 10.0 0:08.96 nspluginviewer
4456 miked 15 0 57128 44m 37m S 0.3 11.7 0:58.54 kdeinit
5303 miked 17 0 1760 908 1540 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.01 top
1 root 16 0 588 240 444 S 0.0 0.1 0:05.20 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 events/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
5 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/0
6 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
10 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 kswapd0
169 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 kseriod
501 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 kjournald

miked@linux:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 386448 378452 7996 0 9884 174752
-/+ buffers/cache: 193816 192632
Swap: 772992 4 772988
miked@linux:~>





I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro, Updated as of today, DMA is on. Overall, system seems sluggish. When running Personal Edition, system worked great (this is a clean Pro install).





Please advise.[QUOTE]

Last edited by mikedeatworld; 10-25-2004 at 07:28 PM.
 
Old 10-25-2004, 08:08 PM   #2
mikedeatworld
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Farmington Michigan
Distribution: UBUNTU - Slackware - SuSE 9.1 - Knoppix - Fedora
Posts: 828

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 30
i've updated my database with updatedb, no positive results.
 
Old 10-25-2004, 11:37 PM   #3
mikedeatworld
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Farmington Michigan
Distribution: UBUNTU - Slackware - SuSE 9.1 - Knoppix - Fedora
Posts: 828

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 30
Just tried fluxbox, and the system seems to have the same issues?

Any ideas? Anyone?
 
Old 10-26-2004, 01:11 AM   #4
Shade
Senior Member
 
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Burke, VA
Distribution: RHEL, Slackware, Ubuntu, Fedora
Posts: 1,418
Blog Entries: 1

Rep: Reputation: 46
I wouldn't consider this a memory issue until your swap starts thrashing.
I suggest you search the board for other memory issues, you'll find that linux manages memory somewhat differently than you may be used to. I don't think this is the source for your sluggesh system performance.

Take a look at the total number of processes being run on your machine.
a few useful commands:
Code:
ps -aux |wc -l
[total number of processes]

ps -aux | less[lists the currently running processes in the less pager]
--Shade
 
Old 10-26-2004, 10:02 AM   #5
mikedeatworld
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Farmington Michigan
Distribution: UBUNTU - Slackware - SuSE 9.1 - Knoppix - Fedora
Posts: 828

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 30
Thanks for the reply Shade.

When I ran the command you suggessted, the output seem to display process and their mem allocation. Just a rough estimate, it did not total my system RAM.

I can post my actual results when i get home.
 
Old 10-26-2004, 10:58 AM   #6
mikedeatworld
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Farmington Michigan
Distribution: UBUNTU - Slackware - SuSE 9.1 - Knoppix - Fedora
Posts: 828

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 30
Just ordered 512MB of RAM to drop into my system. If this doesn't boost performance, I don't know what I can do....


 
Old 10-26-2004, 01:34 PM   #7
mikedeatworld
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Farmington Michigan
Distribution: UBUNTU - Slackware - SuSE 9.1 - Knoppix - Fedora
Posts: 828

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 30
Well, I've ruled out a possible leak. I'm thinking it could be that the Pro version is Robust, and uses Mem to the max.



Hopefully my new RAM will help.
 
  


Reply


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
change of MB,CPU, MEM on Suse 10 Pulp Linux - Hardware 2 10-27-2005 07:32 AM
<string> mem leak help BorisMcHack Programming 3 04-13-2005 01:11 AM
Prob. in mounting Jetflash USB2.0 mem stick in Suse 9.0 nilaybhatt Linux - Hardware 0 12-30-2004 12:25 AM
Prob. in mounting Jetflash USB2.0 mem stick in Suse 9.0 nilaybhatt Linux - Hardware 0 12-29-2004 11:56 PM
Linux 7.1 seawolf no screen found , ATI Rage fury pro , 64 magabytes of mem Vespir Linux - Newbie 1 12-19-2001 09:27 AM

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Software

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:52 AM.

Main Menu
Advertisement
My LQ
Write for LQ
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.
Main Menu
Syndicate
RSS1  Latest Threads
RSS1  LQ News
Twitter: @linuxquestions
Open Source Consulting | Domain Registration