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[6.303] Memory use climbing

I'm using 6.303 on a Jetway C7 motherboard, 40GB SATA HD, 512MB RAM. It's been running since early December without incident. However, the RAM usage has climbed steadily from ~120MB to ~291MB. In the yearly memory usage graph, it's pretty much a straight line linear increase.
Has anyone seen this type of usage before?

I have this entry in my processes list...
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 9877 0.0 37.0 168708 166964 ? SN 2006 14:52 /usr/sbin/snmpd -c /etc/snmpd.conf -Ls daemon

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0 William Warren over 18 years ago

yes that's how linux works. it will grab memory for caching to speed thiings up. As long as your system is responsive and not showing bad performance it's fine.

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0 JimmyM over 18 years ago in reply to William Warren

On my previous system, a Compaq DL380 2xPIII-733, it used ~130MB continuously for months and months.
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0 BarryG over 18 years ago

It does seem odd that the SNMP daemon is using so much RAM.

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0 JimmyM over 18 years ago in reply to BarryG

It does seem odd that the SNMP daemon is using so much RAM.

Barry

That's what I was thinking. I'm gogin to reboot and see what happens.
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0 JimmyM over 18 years ago in reply to JimmyM

I rebooted last night using the "Restart" option from the web admin interface. It never restarted. I had my wife hit the hardware reset button this morning. It then restarted swiftly and all is well now. snmpd is now using something like 4 MB now. Not 168. I'll be updating to 7.x when I get the chance. I'll see what happens then.
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