Memory staying in cached status -- Possible Memory Leak

[Kaplan, Andrew H.]

Hi there --

I ran a memtest86+ scan on the box, and there were no errors reported by
application. At this point it would appear there is a resource hog that 
is causing this issue. What utility can I use to track the usage of the various
programs on the system. 

The top utility comes to mind, but what options would I use including the
ability to output the results to a file?

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Adam Hough
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:34 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Memory staying in cached status -- Possible Memory Leak

Have you ran a memtest86+ on the box?

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 10:31 -0400, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Hi there --
> 
> I am running Fedora Core 5 that was hardened by Bastille Linux on a system
with
> 1.5 GB of RAM. The system functions as an e-mail server running Sendmail along
> with MailScanner, SpamAssassin, and ClamAV. 
> 
> I have noticed over time, via the free -m command, that the amount of cached
RAM
> is going up. This results in the amount of free memory going down to where
there
> is almost nothing left. The end result has been the system to periodically
> hanging, which forces me to reboot the server. 
> 
> What can I do to correct this problem? Thanks. 
> 
> 
-- 
Adam Hough
High Performance Computing
Computing Services Center 200
225-578-7202
fax: 225-578-6400
ahough at lsu.edu

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