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- From: james@engrs.unl.edu (James Nau)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Where has all my memory gone?
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 21:57:55 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering & Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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- Keywords: virtual memory missing paging space
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- Does anyone know a way to tell exactly where all one's memory
- is being used at? I've got two 520's running 3.2.1 which have
- been up and running since July 9. That's fine, but I think
- I'm slowly loosing memory (I mean on the RSs :) Both 'lsps -a'
- and monitor seem to agree that I've got 60MB of paging, and about
- 52MB used leaving 8 or so free. I would normally not argue, but
- running with 8MB free is getting awfully tight. So, I add up
- the outputs of size from 'ps aux', 'ps -kel'. They seem to both
- add up to around 32 MB in use. So, where is the other 20MB
- of virtual memory? It sure would be nice to have it back :) This
- is even after running slibclean. What I want, is a way to find
- out who/what is using that 20MB of memory. If something is using
- it productively, that's OK, but I still want to know where it is!
-
- I could probably cure all this by rebooting, but, I usually view
- that as the last response on the two servers. Besides, as they
- say "I shouldn't HAVE to do that".
-
- Thanks!
- James
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- james@engrs.unl.edu
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- College of Engineering
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