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What is eating all of my memory?
Hi
Just recently a number of files have started eating up my memory. The text below is a cut and paste of the main ofenders. I got it by typing #top into putty.
Does anybody know what these things are? I installed htmldoc recently. Is it something to do with that?
Kind Regards,
Adrian Smith
Just recently a number of files have started eating up my memory. The text below is a cut and paste of the main ofenders. I got it by typing #top into putty.
Does anybody know what these things are? I installed htmldoc recently. Is it something to do with that?
Kind Regards,
Adrian Smith
1606 root 20 0 6728 916 400 S 0 0.1 0:01.65 dhclient
1647 root 20 0 5896 600 476 S 0 0.1 0:12.31 syslogd
1650 root 20 0 3792 436 344 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 klogd
1674 dbus 20 0 21248 868 656 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 dbus-daemon
1713 sw-cp-se 20 0 60084 3240 1356 S 0 0.3 0:00.99 sw-cp-serverd
1725 root 20 0 60592 1224 676 S 0 0.1 0:10.57 sshd
1736 root 20 0 21628 892 680 S 0 0.1 0:00.09 xinetd
1751 root 20 0 40852 916 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1753 root 20 0 33548 1424 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1761 root 20 0 40852 920 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
Michael Worsham
On the server -- please post an output of the following: 'ps auuwx'
i biggest offender is GNOME or KDE ....yes it truth in linux these display managers sucks lots of ram but if ur not using any then may be the new programs of unnecessary packages are eating ram just remove them from start-up via chkconfig and check if its still same or not
except this one
1713 sw-cp-se 20 0 60084 3240 1356 S 0 0.3 0:00.99 sw-cp-serverd
all are linux basic programm which is Ok
by loooking those, i am not seeing too much memory use
run this command , to show which process is eating your memory
ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
1713 sw-cp-se 20 0 60084 3240 1356 S 0 0.3 0:00.99 sw-cp-serverd
all are linux basic programm which is Ok
by loooking those, i am not seeing too much memory use
run this command , to show which process is eating your memory
ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
also
after running top command
press Shift +M
it will short the output by memory use higher to lower
after running top command
press Shift +M
it will short the output by memory use higher to lower
ASKER
Dear mwecomputers
Here is the printout.
# ps auuwx
Here is the printout.
# ps auuwx
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 10336 760 ? Ss Jul02 0:07 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [migration/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [migration/1]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:07 [events/0]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:08 [events/1]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [khelper]
root 116 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 117 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kblockd/1]
root 118 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kacpid]
root 119 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root 210 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [ata/0]
root 211 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [ata/1]
root 212 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [ata_aux]
root 213 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root 218 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [khubd]
root 221 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kseriod]
root 281 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul02 0:01 [pdflush]
root 282 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul02 0:02 [pdflush]
root 283 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 284 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [aio/0]
root 285 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [aio/1]
root 286 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [nfsiod]
root 287 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [cifsoplockd]
root 288 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [cifsdnotifyd]
root 290 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfs_mru_cache]
root 291 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfslogd/0]
root 292 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfslogd/1]
root 293 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfsdatad/0]
root 294 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:01 [xfsdatad/1]
root 1013 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 1015 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root 1046 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [exec-osm/0]
root 1047 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [exec-osm/1]
root 1095 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kstriped]
root 1097 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [ksnapd]
root 1098 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kondemand/0]
root 1099 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kondemand/1]
root 1104 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [rpciod/0]
root 1105 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [rpciod/1]
root 1116 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:43 [md6_raid1]
root 1122 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [md5_raid1]
root 1128 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:11 [md1_raid1]
root 1130 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:02 [kjournald]
root 1164 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [kauditd]
root 1266 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfsbufd]
root 1267 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfsaild]
root 1268 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfssyncd]
root 1269 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfsbufd]
root 1270 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfsaild]
root 1271 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul02 0:00 [xfssyncd]
root 1606 0.0 0.0 6728 916 ? Ss Jul02 0:01 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid eth0
root 1647 0.0 0.0 5896 600 ? Ss Jul02 0:12 syslogd -m 0
root 1650 0.0 0.0 3792 436 ? Ss Jul02 0:00 klogd -x
dbus 1674 0.0 0.0 21248 868 ? Ss Jul02 0:00 dbus-daemon --system
500 1713 0.0 0.3 60084 3248 ? S Jul02 0:01 /usr/sbin/sw-cp-serverd -f /etc/sw-cp-server/config
root 1725 0.0 0.1 60592 1224 ? Ss Jul02 0:10 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 1736 0.0 0.0 21628 892 ? Ss Jul02 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
root 1751 0.0 0.0 40852 916 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/courierlogger -stderrloggername=imapd -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -pid=/var/run/imapd.pid -nodnslookup -no
root 1753 0.0 0.1 33548 1424 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/sbin/courierlogger imapd
root 1761 0.0 0.0 40852 920 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/courierlogger -stderrloggername=imapd-ssl -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -pid=/var/run/imapd-ssl.pid -nodnslo
root 1763 0.0 0.1 33548 1424 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/sbin/courierlogger imapd-ssl
root 1769 0.0 0.0 40852 916 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/courierlogger -stderrloggername=pop3d -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -pid=/var/run/pop3d.pid -nodnslookup -no
root 1771 0.0 0.1 33548 1424 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/sbin/courierlogger pop3d
root 1778 0.0 0.0 40852 916 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd -address=0 -stderrlogger=/usr/sbin/courierlogger -stderrloggername=pop3d-ssl -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -pid=/var/run/pop3d-ssl.pid -nodnslo
root 1780 0.0 0.1 33548 1420 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/sbin/courierlogger pop3d-ssl
qmails 1792 0.0 0.0 3836 536 ? S Jul02 0:00 qmail-send
qmaill 1794 0.0 0.0 3784 536 ? S Jul02 0:00 splogger qmail
root 1795 0.0 0.0 3824 432 ? S Jul02 0:00 qmail-lspawn | /usr/bin/deliverquota ./Maildir
qmailr 1796 0.0 0.0 3824 452 ? S Jul02 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 1797 0.0 0.0 3780 408 ? S Jul02 0:00 qmail-clean
named 1847 0.0 0.3 90052 3444 ? Ssl Jul02 0:01 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf -u named -t /var/named/run-root
root 1883 0.0 0.1 65880 1348 ? S Jul02 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
mysql 1940 0.0 3.5 241716 34848 ? Sl Jul02 2:16 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-external-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
postgres 2003 0.0 0.4 120464 4076 ? S Jul02 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
postgres 2018 0.0 0.1 109640 1036 ? S Jul02 0:02 postgres: logger process
postgres 2020 0.0 0.1 120464 1244 ? S Jul02 0:10 postgres: writer process
postgres 2021 0.0 0.0 110644 952 ? S Jul02 0:00 postgres: stats buffer process
postgres 2022 0.0 0.1 109776 1148 ? S Jul02 0:00 postgres: stats collector process
root 2024 0.0 4.6 159616 46292 ? Ss Jul02 0:40 /usr/bin/spamd --username=popuser --daemonize --nouser-config --helper-home-dir=/var/qmail --max-children 5 --create-prefs --virtual-config-dir=/var/qmail/mailnames/%d/%l/.
popuser 2025 0.0 4.5 159616 44840 ? S Jul02 0:00 spamd child
popuser 2026 0.0 4.5 159616 44760 ? S Jul02 0:00 spamd child
root 2190 0.0 0.1 74780 1132 ? Ss Jul02 0:00 crond
avahi 2201 0.0 0.1 23236 1432 ? Ss Jul02 0:03 avahi-daemon: running [s15345671.local]
avahi 2202 0.0 0.0 23112 472 ? Ss Jul02 0:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper
68 2212 0.0 0.2 29756 2824 ? Ss Jul02 0:00 hald
root 2213 0.0 0.1 21656 1168 ? S Jul02 0:00 hald-runner
root 2222 0.0 0.0 3776 508 tty1 Ss+ Jul02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
root 2223 0.0 0.0 3776 512 tty2 Ss+ Jul02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root 2224 0.0 0.0 3776 512 tty3 Ss+ Jul02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 2225 0.0 0.0 3776 512 tty4 Ss+ Jul02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 2226 0.0 0.0 3776 512 tty5 Ss+ Jul02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 2227 0.0 0.0 3776 512 tty6 Ss+ Jul02 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root 2228 0.0 0.0 3788 572 ttyS0 Ss+ Jul02 0:00 /sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 57600 vt100
root 2450 0.0 1.3 351112 13528 ? Ss Jul02 0:03 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2451 0.0 0.4 274188 4348 ? S Jul02 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2452 0.0 3.7 376792 37080 ? S Jul02 1:39 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2453 0.0 2.4 368436 24164 ? S Jul02 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2454 0.0 3.3 373528 32772 ? S Jul02 0:03 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2455 0.0 2.4 368528 23808 ? S Jul02 2:02 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2456 0.0 2.3 368060 23404 ? S Jul02 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2457 0.0 2.4 368092 23916 ? S Jul02 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2458 0.0 2.4 368404 23928 ? S Jul02 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 2459 0.0 2.3 368076 23380 ? S Jul02 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
root 22561 0.0 0.3 98688 3700 ? Ss 14:35 0:00 sshd: root@pts/0
root 22563 0.0 0.1 66016 1600 pts/0 Ss 14:36 0:00 -bash
10001 22971 0.0 0.3 78380 3712 ? Ss 15:30 0:00 proftpd: lwf_sc_net - 90.152.37.6: IDLE
root 22972 0.0 0.0 65576 980 pts/0 R+ 15:32 0:00 ps auuwx
apache 23664 0.0 2.4 368260 24200 ? S Jul03 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 23728 0.0 2.4 368048 24008 ? S Jul03 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
apache 23784 0.0 2.3 368036 23780 ? S Jul03 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
[root@s15345671 ~]#ASKER
Dear DontDig
I'm not using KDE or GNOME. Just the shell.
Not to my knowledge anyway.
I'm not using KDE or GNOME. Just the shell.
Not to my knowledge anyway.
ASKER
Dear Fosiul01
Here is the
# ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
Here is the
# ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
# ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
4.6 1 /usr/bin/spamd
4.5 2 spamd
3.7 1 /usr/sbin/httpd
3.5 1 /usr/libexec/mysqld
3.3 1 /usr/sbin/httpd
2.4 6 /usr/sbin/httpd
2.3 3 /usr/sbin/httpd
1.3 1 /usr/sbin/httpd
0.4 1 /usr/sbin/httpd
0.4 1 /usr/bin/postmaster
0.3 1 /usr/sbin/sw-cp-serverd
0.3 1 /usr/sbin/named
0.3 1 sshd:
0.2 1 hald
0.1 4 /usr/sbin/courierlogger
0.1 3 postgres:
0.1 1 /usr/sbin/sshd
0.1 1 hald-runner
0.1 1 crond
0.1 1 /bin/sh
0.1 1 -bash
0.1 1 avahi-daemon:
%MEM 1 COMMAND
0.0 6 /sbin/mingetty
0.0 4 /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd
0.0 2 [xfssyncd]
0.0 2 [xfsbufd]
0.0 2 [xfsaild]
0.0 2 sort
0.0 2 [pdflush]
0.0 2 awk
0.0 1 xinetd
0.0 1 [xfs_mru_cache]
0.0 1 [xfslogd/1]
0.0 1 [xfslogd/0]
0.0 1 [xfsdatad/1]
0.0 1 [xfsdatad/0]
0.0 1 uniq
0.0 1 syslogd
0.0 1 splogger
0.0 1 [scsi_eh_1]
0.0 1 [scsi_eh_0]
0.0 1 /sbin/dhclient
0.0 1 /sbin/agetty
0.0 1 [rpciod/1]
0.0 1 [rpciod/0]
0.0 1 qmail-send
0.0 1 qmail-rspawn
0.0 1 qmail-lspawn
0.0 1 qmail-clean
0.0 1 ps
0.0 1 postgres:
0.0 1 [nfsiod]
0.0 1 [migration/1]
0.0 1 [migration/0]
0.0 1 [md6_raid1]
0.0 1 [md5_raid1]
0.0 1 [md1_raid1]
0.0 1 [kthreadd]
0.0 1 [kswapd0]
0.0 1 [ksuspend_usbd]
0.0 1 [kstriped]
0.0 1 [ksoftirqd/1]
0.0 1 [ksoftirqd/0]
0.0 1 [ksnapd]
0.0 1 [kseriod]
0.0 1 [kondemand/1]
0.0 1 [kondemand/0]
0.0 1 klogd
0.0 1 [kjournald]
0.0 1 [khubd]
0.0 1 [khelper]
0.0 1 [kblockd/1]
0.0 1 [kblockd/0]
0.0 1 [kauditd]
0.0 1 [kacpi_notify]
0.0 1 [kacpid]
0.0 1 init
0.0 1 [exec-osm/1]
0.0 1 [exec-osm/0]
0.0 1 [events/1]
0.0 1 [events/0]
0.0 1 dbus-daemon
0.0 1 [cifsoplockd]
0.0 1 [cifsdnotifyd]
0.0 1 avahi-daemon:
0.0 1 [ata_aux]
0.0 1 [ata/1]
0.0 1 [ata/0]
0.0 1 [aio/1]
0.0 1 [aio/0]ASKER
Dear Fosiul01
Here is the sorted top command.
Up until a few days ago my server never used more than 300,000k. This was the case for the last 2 months but now for some reason it's started using nearly all of it.
Kind Regards,
Adrian
Here is the sorted top command.
Up until a few days ago my server never used more than 300,000k. This was the case for the last 2 months but now for some reason it's started using nearly all of it.
Kind Regards,
Adrian
top - 15:41:46 up 3 days, 20:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 991980k total, 897868k used, 94112k free, 11624k buffers
Swap: 3919840k total, 52k used, 3919788k free, 545396k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2024 root 20 0 155m 45m 2416 S 0 4.7 0:40.14 spamd
2025 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 964 S 0 4.5 0:00.18 spamd
2026 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 884 S 0 4.5 0:00.26 spamd
2452 apache 20 0 367m 36m 4860 S 0 3.7 1:39.94 httpd
1940 mysql 20 0 236m 34m 5740 S 0 3.5 2:16.81 mysqld
2454 apache 20 0 364m 32m 5236 S 0 3.3 0:03.30 httpd
23664 apache 20 0 359m 23m 4844 S 0 2.4 0:02.22 httpd
2453 apache 20 0 359m 23m 4836 S 0 2.4 0:02.33 httpd
23728 apache 20 0 359m 23m 4644 S 0 2.4 0:01.90 httpd
2458 apache 20 0 359m 23m 4848 S 0 2.4 0:02.73 httpd
2457 apache 20 0 359m 23m 4656 S 0 2.4 0:01.63 httpd
2455 apache 20 0 359m 23m 4796 S 0 2.4 2:02.09 httpd
23784 apache 20 0 359m 23m 4564 S 0 2.4 0:01.21 httpd
2456 apache 20 0 359m 22m 4680 S 0 2.4 0:02.06 httpd
2459 apache 20 0 359m 22m 4640 S 0 2.4 0:01.34 httpd
2450 root 20 0 342m 13m 7336 S 0 1.4 0:03.33 httpd
2451 apache 20 0 267m 4348 448 S 0 0.4 0:02.43 httpd
2003 postgres 20 0 117m 4076 3416 S 0 0.4 0:00.50 postmaster
22561 root 20 0 98688 3712 2836 S 0 0.4 0:00.14 sshd
1847 named 20 0 90052 3444 1844 S 0 0.3 0:01.24 named
1713 sw-cp-se 20 0 60084 3248 1356 S 0 0.3 0:01.30 sw-cp-serverd
2212 haldaemo 20 0 29756 2824 1508 S 0 0.3 0:00.01 hald
22563 root 20 0 66016 1604 1248 S 0 0.2 0:00.03 bash
2201 avahi 20 0 23236 1432 1176 S 0 0.1 0:03.23 avahi-daemon
1753 root 20 0 33548 1424 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1763 root 20 0 33548 1424 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1771 root 20 0 33548 1424 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1780 root 20 0 33548 1420 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1883 root 20 0 65880 1348 1124 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 mysqld_safe
22990 root 20 0 12724 1268 928 R 0 0.1 0:00.04 top
2020 postgres 20 0 117m 1244 580 S 0 0.1 0:10.18 postmaster
1725 root 20 0 60592 1224 676 S 0 0.1 0:10.58 sshd
2213 root 20 0 21656 1168 980 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 hald-runner
2022 postgres 20 0 107m 1148 356 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 postmaster
2190 root 20 0 74780 1132 560 S 0 0.1 0:00.68 crond
2018 postgres 20 0 107m 1036 372 S 0 0.1 0:02.68 postmaster
2021 postgres 20 0 108m 952 288 S 0 0.1 0:00.26 postmaster
1761 root 20 0 40852 920 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1606 root 20 0 6728 916 400 S 0 0.1 0:01.65 dhclient
1751 root 20 0 40852 916 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1769 root 20 0 40852 916 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1778 root 20 0 40852 916 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1736 root 20 0 21628 892 680 S 0 0.1 0:00.09 xinetd
1674 dbus 20 0 21248 868 656 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 dbus-daemon
1 root 20 0 10336 760 632 S 0 0.1 0:07.18 init
1647 root 20 0 5896 600 476 S 0 0.1 0:12.32 syslogd
2228 root 20 0 3788 572 480 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 agetty
1792 qmails 20 0 3836 536 428 S 0 0.1 0:00.18 qmail-send
1794 qmaill 20 0 3784 536 444 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 splogger
2223 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2224 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2225 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2226 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2227 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2222 root 20 0 3776 508 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2202 avahi 20 0 23112 472 284 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 avahi-daemon
1796 qmailr 20 0 3824 452 332 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn
1650 root 20 0 3792 436 344 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 klogd
1795 root 20 0 3824 432 312 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn
1797 qmailq 20 0 3780 408 324 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 qmail-clean
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.13 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1
is this your vps server or a server in your network ??
have you tryed to restart the server ?? after restarting take a note of memory uses, then see how its increase and where its giving the monery by using ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr ??
have you tryed to restart the server ?? after restarting take a note of memory uses, then see how its increase and where its giving the monery by using ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr ??
ASKER
Hi Fosiul01
It's a fully dedicated server running centos 5.2 + plesk.
I'll reboot now and let you know what happens.
Many Thanks,
Adrian
It's a fully dedicated server running centos 5.2 + plesk.
I'll reboot now and let you know what happens.
Many Thanks,
Adrian
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Hi Fosiul01
After the reboot the memory usage has dropped right down.
Here is the sorted top.
After the reboot the memory usage has dropped right down.
Here is the sorted top.
top - 16:41:50 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.18, 0.09
Tasks: 110 total, 1 running, 109 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 991980k total, 220300k used, 771680k free, 1304k buffers
Swap: 3919840k total, 0k used, 3919840k free, 77376k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2024 root 20 0 155m 45m 2416 S 0 4.7 0:01.03 spamd
2025 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 964 S 0 4.5 0:00.00 spamd
2026 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 884 S 0 4.5 0:00.00 spamd
1940 mysql 20 0 168m 25m 5200 S 0 2.6 0:00.17 mysqld
2090 root 20 0 288m 13m 7276 S 0 1.4 0:00.13 httpd
2144 apache 20 0 345m 12m 3812 S 0 1.3 0:00.07 httpd
2145 apache 20 0 345m 12m 3700 S 0 1.3 0:00.07 httpd
2140 apache 20 0 344m 11m 3608 S 0 1.2 0:00.04 httpd
2141 apache 20 0 289m 8388 2032 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 httpd
2142 apache 20 0 289m 8388 2032 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 httpd
2143 apache 20 0 289m 8388 2032 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 httpd
2146 apache 20 0 289m 8236 1908 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 httpd
2147 apache 20 0 289m 8236 1908 S 0 0.8 0:00.00 httpd
2095 apache 20 0 213m 4348 448 S 0 0.4 0:00.00 httpd
2003 postgres 20 0 117m 4076 3416 S 0 0.4 0:00.41 postmaster
2271 root 20 0 98688 3708 2832 S 0 0.4 0:00.02 sshd
2265 lwf_sc_n 20 0 78460 3672 2564 S 0 0.4 0:00.02 in.proftpd
1847 named 20 0 90052 3436 1840 S 0 0.3 0:00.00 named
2212 haldaemo 20 0 29756 2820 1508 S 0 0.3 0:00.01 hald
2273 root 20 0 66016 1588 1236 S 0 0.2 0:00.02 bash
2201 avahi 20 0 23236 1432 1172 S 0 0.1 0:00.02 avahi-daemon
1763 root 20 0 33548 1424 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1771 root 20 0 33548 1424 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1753 root 20 0 33548 1420 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1780 root 20 0 33548 1420 1088 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 courierlogger
1883 root 20 0 65880 1348 1124 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 mysqld_safe
2292 root 20 0 12728 1268 928 R 0 0.1 0:00.06 top
2020 postgres 20 0 117m 1244 580 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 postmaster
1725 root 20 0 60592 1228 676 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd
2213 root 20 0 21656 1168 980 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 hald-runner
1713 sw-cp-se 20 0 58760 1152 532 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 sw-cp-serverd
2022 postgres 20 0 107m 1148 356 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 postmaster
2190 root 20 0 74780 1136 560 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 crond
2018 postgres 20 0 107m 964 300 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 postmaster
2021 postgres 20 0 108m 952 288 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 postmaster
1761 root 20 0 40852 920 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1751 root 20 0 40852 912 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1769 root 20 0 40852 912 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1778 root 20 0 40852 912 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 couriertcpd
1736 root 20 0 21628 892 676 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 xinetd
1674 dbus 20 0 21248 872 656 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 dbus-daemon
1 root 20 0 10336 760 632 S 0 0.1 0:04.88 init
1606 root 20 0 6728 740 228 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 dhclient
1647 root 20 0 5896 596 476 S 0 0.1 0:00.04 syslogd
2228 root 20 0 3788 568 480 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 agetty
1794 qmaill 20 0 3784 532 444 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 splogger
2222 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2224 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2226 root 20 0 3776 512 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2223 root 20 0 3776 508 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2225 root 20 0 3776 508 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2227 root 20 0 3776 508 424 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 mingetty
2202 avahi 20 0 23112 468 284 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 avahi-daemon
1792 qmails 20 0 3836 444 348 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 qmail-send
1650 root 20 0 3792 432 344 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 klogd
1796 qmailr 20 0 3824 432 312 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn
1795 root 20 0 3824 428 312 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn
1797 qmailq 20 0 3780 400 320 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 qmail-clean
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
ok can you install htop
yum install htop
then run htop
see what its showing
yum install htop
then run htop
see what its showing
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Hi Fosiul01
Here is the
# ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
Did you want me to include the "??" - It threw an error.
What is the 2nd column? I'm guessing that the first is the memory and the 3rd is the process.
Cheers,
Adrian
Here is the
# ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
Did you want me to include the "??" - It threw an error.
What is the 2nd column? I'm guessing that the first is the memory and the 3rd is the process.
Cheers,
Adrian
# ps aux | awk '{print $4"\t"$11}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2" "$1" "$3}' | sort -nr
4.6 1 /usr/bin/spamd
4.5 2 spamd
2.5 1 /usr/libexec/mysqld
1.3 1 /usr/sbin/httpd
1.2 2 /usr/sbin/httpd
1.1 1 /usr/sbin/httpd
0.8 5 /usr/sbin/httpd
0.4 1 /usr/sbin/httpd
0.4 1 /usr/bin/postmaster
0.3 1 /usr/sbin/named
0.3 1 sshd:
0.3 1 proftpd:
0.2 1 hald
0.1 4 /usr/sbin/courierlogger
0.1 2 postgres:
0.1 1 /usr/sbin/sw-cp-serverd
0.1 1 /usr/sbin/sshd
0.1 1 hald-runner
0.1 1 crond
0.1 1 /bin/sh
0.1 1 -bash
0.1 1 avahi-daemon:
%MEM 1 COMMAND
0.0 6 /sbin/mingetty
0.0 4 /usr/lib/courier-imap/couriertcpd
0.0 2 [xfssyncd]
0.0 2 [xfsbufd]
0.0 2 [xfsaild]
0.0 2 sort
0.0 2 postgres:
0.0 2 [pdflush]
0.0 2 awk
0.0 1 xinetd
0.0 1 [xfs_mru_cache]
0.0 1 [xfslogd/1]
0.0 1 [xfslogd/0]
0.0 1 [xfsdatad/1]
0.0 1 [xfsdatad/0]
0.0 1 uniq
0.0 1 syslogd
0.0 1 splogger
0.0 1 [scsi_eh_1]
0.0 1 [scsi_eh_0]
0.0 1 /sbin/dhclient
0.0 1 /sbin/agetty
0.0 1 [rpciod/1]
0.0 1 [rpciod/0]
0.0 1 qmail-send
0.0 1 qmail-rspawn
0.0 1 qmail-lspawn
0.0 1 qmail-clean
0.0 1 ps
0.0 1 [nfsiod]
0.0 1 [migration/1]
0.0 1 [migration/0]
0.0 1 [md6_raid1]
0.0 1 [md5_raid1]
0.0 1 [md1_raid1]
0.0 1 [kthreadd]
0.0 1 [kswapd0]
0.0 1 [ksuspend_usbd]
0.0 1 [kstriped]
0.0 1 [ksoftirqd/1]
0.0 1 [ksoftirqd/0]
0.0 1 [ksnapd]
0.0 1 [kseriod]
0.0 1 [kondemand/1]
0.0 1 [kondemand/0]
0.0 1 klogd
0.0 1 [kjournald]
0.0 1 [khubd]
0.0 1 [khelper]
0.0 1 [kblockd/1]
0.0 1 [kblockd/0]
0.0 1 [kauditd]
0.0 1 [kacpi_notify]
0.0 1 [kacpid]
0.0 1 init
0.0 1 [exec-osm/1]
0.0 1 [exec-osm/0]
0.0 1 [events/1]
0.0 1 [events/0]
0.0 1 dbus-daemon
0.0 1 [cifsoplockd]
0.0 1 [cifsdnotifyd]
0.0 1 avahi-daemon:
0.0 1 [ata_aux]
0.0 1 [ata/1]
0.0 1 [ata/0]
0.0 1 [aio/1]
0.0 1 [aio/0]
[root@s15345671 ~]#
What is the 2nd column? I'm guessing that the first is the memory and the 3rd is the process. ::
if you look this one( line 8)
0.8 5 /usr/sbin/httpd
its saying
5 httpd is running each consuming 0.8 memory each so total : 5*0.8 = 4Mb
if you look this one( line 8)
0.8 5 /usr/sbin/httpd
its saying
5 httpd is running each consuming 0.8 memory each so total : 5*0.8 = 4Mb
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I've done it but I can't cut and paste the text.
Do you know how?
Do you know how?
which one ?? htop ?? , just take a screen shot
ASKER
It's a bit of a monster.
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do you have 1 GB or 9Gb memory ??
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Dear fosiul01:
I have 1 GB memory.
I have 1 GB memory.
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Dear mwecomputers:
Infact I don't actually use the server for mail at all and so that's one obvious saving. Nor do I use PostgresSQL and so that's another. I have an application that uses MySQL and so I'm happy with the resources it consumes. I don't know what Named (BIND/DNS) is actually. As far as I know all of my dns stuff is done externally to my server. Is it something that Plesk would use?
Many Thanks,
Adrian
Infact I don't actually use the server for mail at all and so that's one obvious saving. Nor do I use PostgresSQL and so that's another. I have an application that uses MySQL and so I'm happy with the resources it consumes. I don't know what Named (BIND/DNS) is actually. As far as I know all of my dns stuff is done externally to my server. Is it something that Plesk would use?
Many Thanks,
Adrian
you, i am not seeing anythign wrong.. its just showing whats its getting
but its spamd and httpd
spamd and httpd is taking
if you look at top command
2024 root 20 0 155m 45m 2416 S 0 4.7 0:01.03 spamd
2025 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 964 S 0 4.5 0:00.00 spamd
2026 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 884 S 0 4.5 0:00.00 spamd
now if you do
pmap 2024
pmap 2025
pmap 2026
it wil show you Exactly how much memory each process is getting
now if you do pmap for each httpd, it will show you how much memory each process is getting ..
but its spamd and httpd
spamd and httpd is taking
if you look at top command
2024 root 20 0 155m 45m 2416 S 0 4.7 0:01.03 spamd
2025 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 964 S 0 4.5 0:00.00 spamd
2026 popuser 20 0 155m 43m 884 S 0 4.5 0:00.00 spamd
now if you do
pmap 2024
pmap 2025
pmap 2026
it wil show you Exactly how much memory each process is getting
now if you do pmap for each httpd, it will show you how much memory each process is getting ..
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Gentlemen
I won't take any more of your time in this question. I am very grateful to you for your expert help. I was worried that there was some kind of dodgy software running. I'll fiddle about with plesk and see if I can disable the services I'm not using. I think I might have switched them on by accident. If I can't switch the services off in plesk then I'll post another question asking for help on how to kill them.
Many Thanks,
Adrian Smith
I won't take any more of your time in this question. I am very grateful to you for your expert help. I was worried that there was some kind of dodgy software running. I'll fiddle about with plesk and see if I can disable the services I'm not using. I think I might have switched them on by accident. If I can't switch the services off in plesk then I'll post another question asking for help on how to kill them.
Many Thanks,
Adrian Smith
Plesk enables alot of things on by default. It should be safe to shutdown/disable those applications if you are not using them.
As an added precaution via shell, I recommend doing a 'chkconfig <servicename> off' to make sure those applications don't try to restart after a server reboot, etc.
As an added precaution via shell, I recommend doing a 'chkconfig <servicename> off' to make sure those applications don't try to restart after a server reboot, etc.
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In case anybody ever comes across this post and wants to know how I solved the problem.
1. Login to plesk
2. Find the services tab
3. Switch off the unused services.
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1. Login to plesk
2. Find the services tab
3. Switch off the unused services.
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