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Topic: Memory Leak, How to find it

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Juanito

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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,15:43

My old desktop with a frugal toram hd installation has been up for 36 days now (since the last power cut).

Torsmo shows the following:

RAM Usage: 426M/503M - 84%
Swap Used: 133M/965M - 13%
File systems:
/ 2.3/2.9M
/home 361M/393M

I'm curious as to why the ram usage is so high - the machine is acting as a file, printer, scanner, music server but the extensions loaded are all uci.

I've checked all the obvious places for large files - /var, /tmp, /home/dsl but don't see anything unusual. The ram usage is creeping up each day - is there some command I can use to try and track down the cause of this?

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,16:19

If you are using fluxbox, then that's your answer.
It has been posted and verified many times in the past.
It is one reason that I switched to jwm as the default, yet still resulting much protest.

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,16:26

Here is the old thread.

Usually this is not a problem except when running a server.
But then I usually run servers without X.

You could try an update and use one of the new Xvesa drivers in testing and see if the interaction with flubox makes a difference.

Juanito

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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,17:10

Thanks - I'd not thought to search on "memory AND leak", never having seen anything of that nature in this forum - and I also had a sneaking suspicion that several of my daughters 75M print files were stuck in the samba spooler somewhere...

I've restarted fluxbox using Xvesa.tar.gz from testing, the ram usage is down to 58.0M/503M - 11% - let's see