*- On 10 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "memories" > > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel > (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. > > Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on > Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected > in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long > Netscape sessions and so on. But .... > > If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody > logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the > morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use, and > when I try to work, I get constant segmentation faults (especially in > resource-heavy applications like emacs, TeX, X ...) and sometimes a > kernel-panic. Rebooting `fixes' the problem. > > The hardware: Pentium 2 (233 with 512K cache), an Asus P2L97 AGP > Motherboard, Quantum 4.3GB SCSI Hard Drive. > > Are there tools available that would help me diagnose the problem and > hopefully solve it? > > Thanks in advance for any advice, >
Which netscape are you using? Netscape 4.7 is much tighter on its memory leaks than previous versions. I have also found that X seems to have a memory leak somewhere. My solution to this is to restart the window manager, not logging out of X but just restarting the window manager. It is amazing but I can reclaim 128M/256M of swap by doing this sometimes. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
