[ale] System losing memory

[volcimaster at gmail.com (Warren Myers)]

top only shows the most heavy cpu usage, to the best of my knowledge

so, if you have a process that's eating RAM, but not any CPU time, it could
easily be on the next page of output

try a 'ps aux | cut -b 20- | sort -r' and see if there's anything chewing
gobs o' RAM

that should show from RAM on out of a ps aux listing, sorted from high to
low

WMM

On 5/2/07, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>
> I have a Centos 4.4 system that periodically runs out of memory and swap:
>
> Tasks:  70 total,   1 running,  69 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  2.1% us,  1.1% sy,  0.0% ni, 81.2% id, 15.6% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0%si
> Mem:    483356k total,   468160k used,    15196k free,    10132k buffers
> Swap:  1048568k total,  1048568k used,        0k free,   365392k cached
>
> I can't even run a cc command.  The -b output of top shows nothing with
> a lot of memory, named has 38 M and one other task has 12 M and nothing
> else is over 10 M.
>
> Is there something I can run that might tell me who's got all the
> memory/swap?
>
> Is there a way to hide a process that top won't display?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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