Memory Leaks in RedHat 7.3 - kernel 2.4-18.5bigmem?

From: dmarshx (dmarshx.no_spam_at_no_spam.yahoo.com)
Date: 07/30/03


Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:47:26 -0700

I'm hoping that someone can help me or point me in the right direction.

We run EDA, chip design tools on RedHat 7.3 kernel version 2.4-18.5bigmen
after running several days our free virtual memory is very low, even though
ps and top will show no processes active which account for the memory. The
only thing that we can conclude is that although the processes have
completed the memory for those processes have not been freed. The only way
that we have found to reclaim the memory is to reboot the system.

Are there any tools to help me look at how virtual memory is allocated and
potentially tools to free the memory?

thanks, David



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