Hello
I am using SUSE 10.0 and KDE i have 1gb of ram which gets used up with out any programs being open after that RAM is consumed it then moves on to the swap file memory(1gb) and uses all of that till my computer comes to a halt this is really annoying me. also CPU usage is 100%, virus? im not to sure so could do with some help as i am not pro with unix systems.
Thank you

I have Suse 10 in one of my machines and it works just fine. With the default kernel it grows the RAM usage until it fills all, but it doesn't go to swap and it also doesn't have 100% cpu usage.

With a custom kernel it doesn't grow the the RAM usage that fast, but as it has uptimes of 60 days it eventually fills the wholes RAM, but that isn't a problem as long as it doesn't go to intensive use of swap.

Maybe you have some sort of memory leak in one of your applications that is running. You can see through ps and top which process is using too much resources.

or run memtest (comes with suse) to make sure your ram is happy. It does sound like a memory leak (as Krugger suggested), have you installed anything other than off the dvd?

Well im running open ssh sever and i have installed quite a few other programs, Amsn messenger,superkaramba,bluetooth they run when system starts.
what is the command to check process memory usage? as that will give me a insite into whats going on.
i will try the mem test.
how can i find out what is causing the memory leak?(if there is one ).
Thanks for your help

Use the top utility. When started, hit the M key to sort by memory usage. superkaramba can be a real hog so watch out for that.


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