Hello Diego,
this is nothing, that you need to "guess".
One can simply look up, where the memory has gone.
Regards,
Chris
Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 3:43:12 PM, you wrote:
DLG> Chris, i have a few boxes with mailscanner with 1GB and 2GB of RAM, and it
DLG> seem that mailscanner takes most of the avaible memory, but ti releases it
DLG> when some otehr process needs som of it. My machines never had a problem wht
DLG> that nor ever had to use the swap becuase of this situation, so i would pay
DLG> much attention to it.
DLG> -----Original Message-----
DLG> From: Chris Hemsing [mailto:C.Hemsing (at mark) gmx.net]
DLG> Sent: MiñÓcoles, 30 de Agosto de 2006 07:17 a.m.
DLG> To: Arthur Sherman
DLG> Subject: [coba-e:06604] Re: Memory sucked
DLG> Hello Arthur,
DLG> you should leave out the "head -20" in your command line.
DLG> There must be processes that use your memory!
DLG> Also remember to deduct buffers and chaced memory.
>>From what you sent c. 400M out of 1 G is being sucked up.
DLG> Cheers,
DLG> Chris
DLG> 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
DLG> -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
DLG> 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