[ale] "out of memory" error and dying processes

[David S. Jackson]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:00:36PM -0400 Geoffrey The Esoteric <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> >This system is an Athlon XP 1.5 Ghz with 512MB ram and 489940 swap.
> >Free says:
> >
> >[dsj at scee ~]$ free
> >	    total       used       free    shared     buffers   cached
> >Mem:        256292     164516      91776   0   	      7684      81236
> >-/+ buffers/cache:      75596     180696
> >Swap:       489940      76280     413660
> >
> >
> >Any ideas on how to approach solving this problem?
> 
> When did you run free?  Seems like you've got a good bit of buffer/cache 
> there, not to mention swap.  Can you nail this down at a particular 
> time?  If so, run top and see who the memory hog is.

That seems to be the problem.  I don't think I'm nearby when it
happens.  At least I've never *seen* it happen before.  But I can
track down the time it all started to about a month ago.  Hmmm.  I'm
thinking a leak in one of the dropline gnome-compiled libraries or
something....

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David S. Jackson                                dsj at dsj.net
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