[wellylug] Odd memory usage

[Jamie Dobbs]

Andrej

You're looking at the graphs "back to front" they are showing FREE memory,
not used memory, thus the lower they are the more of a worry it is. (I
looked at them the same way to start with until I realised this)
I have since found that the culprit it the TAR command, as soon as I run
tar to backup my mail files my available memory drops to around 14MB. I
think it might be time to find an alternative to TAR.

>> determine why it should, there are no scheduled jobs apart from a mail
>> backup at 1:15am and pop checks every 5 minutes, can anyone suggest what
>> I can check to see what the memory hogging culprit is?
> With only 100M of 320M used I wouldn't be speaking of
> a memory-hogging culprit in the first place ... :)
>
> And the question I'd be asking is: why is the memory
> usage DROPPING when I run my backup?
>
> But that aside: you could run a batch execution of
> top, for instance, in the time that you find the memory
> usage to be high, and pipe that to a file ... sort by
> memsize ...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andrej
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