Hello Arthur,
you should leave out the "head -20" in your command line.
There must be processes that use your memory!
Also remember to deduct buffers and chaced memory.
From what you sent c. 400M out of 1 G is being sucked up.
Cheers,
Chris
Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 9:52:36 AM, you wrote:
AS> Hi,
AS> Probably after I have update the server (2-3 days ago) I started to mention
AS> that memory drops to 140MB (1GB was avail.).
AS> Never had this before...
AS> I thought this could be Mailscannner's fault, so I stopped it - no go. It
AS> did went up to ~400MB, and that's it.
AS> Any hint?
AS> When running 'ps -eo\%cpu,\%mem,size,rss,pid,cmd |sort -rnk1 | head -20' :
AS> ---
AS> 0.8 6.2 63280 64836 3686 MailScanner: waiting for messages
AS> 0.8 6.2 63276 64824 3683 MailScanner: waiting for messages
AS> 0.7 6.2 63280 64820 3673 MailScanner: waiting for messages
AS> 0.2 0.5 4864 5484 3754 pperld
AS> %CPU %MEM SZ RSS PID CMD
AS> 0.0 2.7 79144 28428 2463 clamav-milter --config-file=/etc/clamd.conf
AS> --max-children=10 --force-scan --quiet --dont-log-clean --noreject -obl
AS> local:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock
AS> 0.0 1.8 116100 19384 2426 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf
AS> --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql
AS> --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking
AS> --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
AS> 0.0 1.7 18608 18136 3672 MailScanner: master waiting for children,
AS> sleeping
AS> 0.0 1.3 14312 14408 2332 clamd
AS> 0.0 1.3 12240 14356 31464 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 12036 13576 31462 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 12028 14084 31463 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 12028 13636 31465 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 11928 14160 31742 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 11840 13864 31468 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 11600 13760 31466 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 11572 13772 31467 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.2 7708 12872 2728 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 0.9 40004 9416 2279 /var/dcc/libexec/dccifd -tCMN,5, -llog -wwhiteclnt
AS> -Uuserdirs -SHELO -Smail_host -SSender -SList-ID
AS> 0.0 0.8 7744 8708 31488 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> ---
AS> 'top' says:
AS> ---
AS> top - 10:02:16 up 6:48, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
AS> Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
AS> Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0%
AS> si
AS> Mem: 1034576k total, 768924k used, 265652k free, 105492k buffers
AS> Swap: 1052152k total, 0k used, 1052152k free, 251304k cached
AS> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
AS> 3868 root 16 0 2596 1172 968 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.02 top
AS> 1 root 16 0 3344 628 544 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.05 init
AS> 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
AS> 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
AS> 4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
AS> 5 root 12 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
AS> 32 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
AS> 33 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
AS> 50 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
AS> 51 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 pdflush
AS> 53 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
AS> 52 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
AS> 197 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
AS> 296 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
AS> 298 root 24 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
AS> 299 root 24 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
AS> 322 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2
AS> 323 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_3
AS> 332 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 md4_raid1
AS> 334 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 md2_raid1
AS> 336 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 md5_raid1
AS> 338 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 md3_raid1
AS> 339 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 md1_raid1
AS> 341 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 md6_raid1
AS> 342 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kjournald
AS> 1340 root 6 -10 1808 444 360 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 udevd
AS> 1367 root 22 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event
AS> 1474 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kauditd
AS> 1512 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmirrord
AS> 1567 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
AS> 1568 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kjournald
AS> 1569 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kjournald
AS> 1570 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.31 kjournald
AS> 1873 root 16 0 2264 544 456 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.23 syslogd
AS> 1877 root 16 0 1512 380 312 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd
AS> 1886 root 16 0 3532 1312 616 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.33 cced
AS> 2101 root 16 0 3568 256 180 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mdadm
AS> 2278 root 21 0 3448 304 168 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 dccifd
AS> 2279 root 16 0 42272 9416 1208 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.07 dccifd
AS> 2292 named 19 0 37468 2644 1840 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.05 named
AS> 2308 root 16 0 5760 1072 764 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd
AS> ---
AS> Best,
AS> --
AS> Arthur Sherman
AS> +972-52-4878851
AS> CPTeam