From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 11:36:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD0614E4E for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA12493; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:35:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:35:40 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Cheney Brothers, Inc." Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Memory Leak In-Reply-To: <01BF536B.812ED780@MIKENEW> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In addition to what Sheldon said, you may be running something that's starting more processes without your knowing it. You should check ps auxw and find out what's running. Read messages too, to find out what's happening. Apparently etc/periodic daily, weekly, and monthly reread the rc.conf and rc.conf.local files, so if you're starting a process in there, it could starting another instance of itself. Annelise On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Cheney Brothers, Inc. wrote: > Hello, > I am running veriosn 2.2.8 of FreeBSD and I am having this problem > with memory disappearing. > > I am running 196 megs of ram and after a fresh reboot of the server > I have approx 140 megs free, after an hour I may have 116 megs free and > it continues to go down and down untill I am around 2000K and then it > might go upto 30 megs free and bounce right back down ro 3000K. > > When it gets real low my cgi's can't run anymore and I have to do a > reboot about once a day. > > Any help would be appreciated. Are you aware of anything like Apace 1.3 > not releasing memory or something in the OS I can get a fix for? > > Thank You! > > -Mike > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message