A friend of mine has the same problem, the machine is slowly filling
up all available memory, rendering it to the point of useless. :(
He runs X and an automated backup system, so a lot of inode/fs
access is in done each day.
Below are some datapoints:
# uptime
7:21pm up 4 days, 18:57, 2 users, load average: 1.07, 1.06, 1.09
#ps axl
FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND
100 0 1 0 0 0 780 72 end S ? 0:03 init
40 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 end SW ? 0:11 (kflushd)
840 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 end SW ? 0:47 (kswapd)
140 1 485 1 0 0 760 0 end SW ? 0:00 (portmap)
140 0 487 1 0 0 856 36 end S S0 0:00 -dip (193
140 0 505 1 0 0 1164 0 end SW ? 0:01 (sshd)
40 0 516 1 0 0 792 0 end SW ? 0:00 (apcupsd)
140 0 527 1 0 0 804 112 end S ? 2:00 syslogd -
140 0 536 1 0 0 1036 0 end SW ? 0:00 (klogd)
140 0 547 1 0 0 1004 128 end S ? 0:05 rwhod
40 2 558 1 0 0 780 0 end SW ? 0:00 (atd)
40 0 569 1 0 0 792 116 end S ? 0:03 crond
140 0 588 1 0 0 788 72 end S ? 0:00 inetd
40 0 599 1 0 0 1196 444 end S ? 0:17 named
140 0 610 1 0 0 824 0 end SW ? 0:00 (lpd)
140 0 616 1 0 0 2616 76 end S ? 0:00 /afs1/htt
140 0 625 1 0 0 2436 96 end S ? 0:00 /afs1/htt
140 0 645 1 0 0 1108 204 end S ? 0:01 -Waiting
40 9 682 1 0 0 2904 2084 end S ? 10:00 /usr/lib/
40 9 693 1 0 0 4424 308 end S ? 0:21 /usr/sbin
40 9 695 1 0 0 1148 0 end SW ? 0:00 (rc.news)
100 0 701 1 0 0 1148 0 end SW ? 0:00 (safe_mys
140 0 711 1 0 0 744 0 end SW ? 0:05 (gpm)
140 0 773 1 0 0 1480 0 end SW ? 0:00 (smbd)
140 0 782 1 0 0 1328 344 end S ? 0:08 nmbd -D
100 0 792 1 0 0 6168 0 end SW ? 0:00 (dtlogin)
0 401 812 1 20 19 636 104 R N ? 6564:25 ./rc5des
100 0 815 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 1 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 816 1 0 0 1480 0 end SW 2 0:00 (login)
100 0 817 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 3 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 818 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 4 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 819 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 5 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 820 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 6 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 821 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 7 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 822 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 8 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 823 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 9 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 824 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 10 0:00 (mingetty
100 0 825 1 0 0 728 0 end SW 11 0:00 (mingetty
0 0 826 1 0 0 728 0 end SW ? 0:00 (cat)
100 0 827 1 0 0 832 0 end SW ? 0:00 (mgetty)
100 0 828 1 0 0 816 0 end SW ? 0:00 (vboxgett
100 0 829 1 0 0 816 0 end SW ? 0:00 (vboxgett
140 0 832 1 0 0 720 24 end S ? 0:16 update (b
40 401 888 1 0 0 4152 0 end SW ? 0:04 (ttsessio
0 401 14069 1 0 0 2828 20 end S ? 0:00 /usr/dt/b
0 0 890 588 0 0 3928 0 end SW ? 0:00 (rpc.ttdb
140 1000 623 616 0 0 2552 40 end S ? 0:00 /afs1/htt
140 1000 9761 616 0 0 2664 8 end S ? 0:00 (httpd)
140 1000 26015 616 0 0 2664 8 end S ? 0:00 (httpd)
0 1000 658 623 0 0 23264 1600 end S ? 6:28 /afs1/pro
0 0 628 625 0 0 1040 0 end SW ? 0:00 (gcache)
140 1000 629 625 0 0 2436 0 end SW ? 0:00 (httpsd)
0 9 917 695 0 0 1196 0 end SW ? 2:30 (innwatch
100 0 723 701 0 0 5016 24 end S ? 0:00 (mysqld)
40 0 750 723 0 0 5016 24 end S ? 0:00 (mysqld)
40 0 751 750 0 0 5016 24 end S ? 0:00 (mysqld)
140 0 18300 773 0 0 1820 204 end S ? 0:02 smbd -D
140 0 24276 773 0 0 1840 204 end S ? 0:07 smbd -D
100 0 835 792 0 0 12096 1012 end S ? 13:23 /usr/bin/
40 0 840 792 0 0 6412 0 end SW ? 0:00 (dtlogin)
0 0 17288 816 5 0 1216 548 end S 2 0:00 -bash
100 401 856 840 0 0 936 0 end SW ? 0:00 (Xsession
0 401 885 856 0 0 1144 0 end SW ? 0:00 (bash)
0 401 889 885 0 0 7084 0 end SW ? 0:00 (dtsessio
40 401 891 889 0 0 1092 64 end S ? 0:03 /usr/bin/
0 401 899 889 0 0 9348 268 end S ? 0:53 dtwm
0 401 900 889 0 0 9232 0 end SW ? 0:01 (dtfile)
0 9 17528 917 0 0 716 0 end SW ? 0:00 (sleep)
0 0 14070 14069 0 0 2548 348 end S ? 0:06 xterm -ls
100 401 14071 14070 0 0 1204 0 end SW p2 0:00 (bash)
0 401 14082 14071 5 0 1152 280 end S p2 0:02 sh ./getp
40 401 17570 14082 8 0 1148 380 end S p2 0:00 sh ./getp
0 0 17569 17288 11 0 980 520 R 2 0:00 ps -lax
0 401 17571 17570 8 0 740 320 end D p2 0:00 date +%m%
# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 64786432 63131648 1654784 5656576 1372160 7950336
Swap: 90472448 25145344 65327104
MemTotal: 63268 kB
MemFree: 1616 kB
MemShared: 5524 kB
Buffers: 1340 kB
Cached: 7764 kB
SwapTotal: 88352 kB
SwapFree: 63796 kB
# cat /proc/slabinfo
slabinfo - version: 1.0
kmem_cache 28 42
tcp_tw_bucket 0 0
tcp_bind_bucket 41 127
tcp_open_request 0 0
skbuff_head_cache 0 25
sock 126 145
dquot 0 0
filp 1115 1134
signal_queue 0 0
buffer_head 1360 2646
mm_struct 69 93
vm_area_struct 1369 1827
dentry_cache 534 1736
files_cache 68 98
uid_cache 5 127
size-131072 0 0
size-65536 1 1
size-32768 0 0
size-16384 1 1
size-8192 0 0
size-4096 83 84
size-2048 142 152
size-1024 17 24
size-512 48 56
size-256 19 28
size-128 430 500
size-64 122 168
size-32 405 756
slab_cache 92 126
# cat /proc/sys/inode-state
152474 64 1 0 0 0 0
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