Hi there
I have a memory leak which occurs about every 4 months. It will suck up all available swap space and the bring the system to halt. I dont know yet which process it is. It's going on at the moment. This is the output of the top vmem processes:
top - 21:56:07 up 99 days, 6:09, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.24, 0.19
Tasks: 132 total, 1 running, 124 sleeping, 0 stopped, 7 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.3% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 95.0% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 191548k total, 166376k used, 25172k free, 7760k buffers
Swap: 1048816k total, 325972k used, 722844k free, 39304k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
16173 root 15 0 107m 18m 292 S 0.0 9.7 25:59.70 snort_inline
21644 root 16 0 57092 33m 1412 S 0.0 17.8 9:53.58 mdw_daemon.pl
21639 root 16 0 19848 6028 1124 S 0.3 3.1 93:58.52 v4watcher
21638 root 16 0 19376 8260 1216 S 0.0 4.3 554:38.89 dns_resolver
3038 root 18 0 17288 2328 832 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.32 aua.bin
First suspect would be snort, I will post updates tomorrow.
Markus
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