Strange memory issue(?) with 6850

[Pengcheng Zou]

could it be some unused shared memory? what does 'ipcs' say?

On 3/6/07, Dominique.GARNIER at arval.fr <Dominique.GARNIER at arval.fr> wrote:
> >> What is "problematic" about the first server?  Are you just looking
> at the output of "free", or is there something more going on?
>
> First i was always looking at the +/- buffers/cache line when i was
> saying that i was concerned
> these server.
>
> What's bothering me is seeing the free value on the +/- buffers/cache
> line free value decreasing
> continually although the server is doing nothing. What's bothering me
> too is that the
> servers experiencing this issue are also experiencing a memory leak from
> OMSA. (only 6850s)
> for example, i saw OMSA taken up to 1Go of RSS memory. Would it be
> possible that upon the
> restart of OMSA not all the memory is reclaimed by the kernel ?
>
> To put it simply:
>
> On the 6850: ~150Mo of RSS memory used -> 5.7Go free on the +/-
> buffers/cache line after a few days
> On the 6800 or 2950: ~150Mo of RSS memory used -> ~8Go memory free after
> a few days
>
> All the servers are not in production state yet and have no other third
> party program installed
> other than OMSA. No X server running too.
>
>
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