Chris, i have a few boxes with mailscanner with 1GB and 2GB of RAM, and it
seem that mailscanner takes most of the avaible memory, but ti releases it
when some otehr process needs som of it. My machines never had a problem wht
that nor ever had to use the swap becuase of this situation, so i would pay
much attention to it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hemsing [mailto:C.Hemsing (at mark) gmx.net]
Sent: MiñÓcoles, 30 de Agosto de 2006 07:17 a.m.
To: Arthur Sherman
Subject: [coba-e:06604] Re: Memory sucked
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
AS> mention 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
AS> go. It 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
AS> --config-file=/etc/clamd.conf --max-children=10 --force-scan --quiet
AS> --dont-log-clean --noreject -obl local:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock
AS> 0.0 1.8 116100 19384 2426 /usr/libexec/mysqld
AS> --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
AS> --user=mysql --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 0.0 1.3 14312 14408 2332 clamd 0.0 1.3 12240 14356
AS> 31464 /usr/sbin/httpd 0.0 1.3 12036 13576 31462 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 12028 14084 31463 /usr/sbin/httpd 0.0 1.3 12028 13636
AS> 31465 /usr/sbin/httpd 0.0 1.3 11928 14160 31742 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.3 11840 13864 31468 /usr/sbin/httpd 0.0 1.3 11600 13760
AS> 31466 /usr/sbin/httpd 0.0 1.3 11572 13772 31467 /usr/sbin/httpd
AS> 0.0 1.2 7708 12872 2728 /usr/sbin/httpd 0.0 0.9 40004 9416 2279
AS> /var/dcc/libexec/dccifd -tCMN,5, -llog -wwhiteclnt -Uuserdirs -SHELO
AS> -Smail_host -SSender -SList-ID 0.0 0.8 7744 8708 31488
AS> /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,
AS> 0.0% 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
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