Jevin Maltais wrote:
> Alright, well I don't have any ulimits or limits that I know of since
> I've never added any. I have 128 megs of swap space. The output of
> free is the following:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached Mem:
> 126372 120072 6300 0 17956 51432 -/+
> buffers/cache: 50684 75688 Swap: 128484 10492
> 117992
>
> I have no idea what could be eating so much of this memory if in fact
> something actually is. I don't have any GUI running nor is this a
> heavy loaded server by any means. Although, I do have httpd, mysqld,
> dhcpd, sendmail etc running. What do you think?
>
I think that's fine. I have a similar system and get
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 94196 82012 12184 0 4648 19356
-/+ buffers/cache: 58008 36188
Swap: 136544 24356 112188
Linux uses all memory it can for disk caches which it frees if more
program memory is needed. So a Linux system which
has been running for a while ends up with nearly 100% memory usage.
To get a better image, you may use the "top" command and sort by memory
usage (Enter M in the top window). I get
9:11am up 4 days, 15:43, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.07, 0.08
92 processes: 90 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 4.4% user, 2.3% system, 0.0% nice, 93.2% idle
Mem: 94196K av, 82432K used, 11764K free, 0K shrd, 4812K
buff
Swap: 136544K av, 24356K used, 112188K free 19356K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
17800 mail 20 0 13332 11M 1660 S 0.0 12.8 0:08 spamd
24135 squid 20 0 5484 5476 1324 S 0.0 5.8 0:00 squid
990 root 20 0 3864 3072 2468 S 0.0 3.2 0:00 named
(Rest snipped)
So spamd is indeed using a lot of memory.
Do you run spamassassin via spamc/spamd or by calling spamassassin
directly? Maybe you get concurrent runs of multiple instances of
spamassassin?
Wolfgang
> Jevin
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