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# 1  
Old 02-18-2011
too much memory
hi guys

my suse 10 Sp3 is consuming too much memory but I don't which process/processes are.
this is top by memory usage
Code:
top - 12:02:46 up 183 days, 13:57,  6 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.25, 0.56
Tasks: 202 total,   1 running, 201 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:     16220M total,    15366M used,      854M free,      514M buffers
Swap:     2047M total,        0M used,     2047M free,    13744M cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6950 root      15   0  456m 339m 5788 S    1  2.1 539:34.72 nco_p_mttrapd
30820 root      16   0  570m  75m 2528 S    0  0.5   6:07.82 java
20502 root      15   0  111m  55m  12m S    0  0.3   0:44.62 ncp_disco
 6838 root      16   0 1074m  42m 7944 S    2  0.3 859:37.19 nco_objserv
31313 root      15   0  159m  41m  12m S    0  0.3   1:01.28 ncp_poller
30461 root      15   0 92084  41m  11m S    0  0.3   1:45.03 ncp_ncogate
28923 root      15   0 90580  40m  10m S    0  0.3   0:11.85 ncp_model
22447 root      15   0 85112  36m  12m S    0  0.2   0:00.78 ncp_disco_perl_
 7056 root      16   0  580m  32m 3932 S    0  0.2   0:22.35 java
29005 root      15   0 58716  32m 4772 S    0  0.2   0:09.16 ncp_f_amos
27124 root      15   0 60832  28m 4272 S    0  0.2   0:05.10 ncp_store
 6953 root      15   0  962m  27m 6680 S    0  0.2 110:28.70 nco_g_odbc
20628 root      15   0  114m  21m  12m S    0  0.1   0:02.65 ncp_dh_snmp
 7058 root      16   0  542m  21m 1896 S    0  0.1   9:12.74 java
15608 root      16   0  132m  18m  10m S    0  0.1  12:58.44 klzagent
18415 root      16   0  105m  17m 9452 S    0  0.1  58:38.83 knoagent
27125 root      15   0 63032  15m  10m S    0  0.1   0:00.25 ncp_class
19809 root      16   0 98964  14m 9596 S    0  0.1  70:39.46 knpagent
22394 root      15   0 48784  14m 5284 S    0  0.1   0:05.65 ncp_agent
 5029 root      -2   0 12332  12m 4432 S    0  0.1   0:18.80 heartbeat
13177 root      16   0 16812  11m 2916 S    0  0.1   0:02.91 Xvnc
27383 root      16   0 16040  10m 2868 S    0  0.1   0:06.59 Xvnc
 5034 root      16   0 13140 9280 1644 S    0  0.1   0:05.68 miniserv.pl
 4835 root      19   0  137m 9032 3928 S    0  0.1   0:17.78 nco_pad
19660 root      15   0 50476 7792 4684 S    0  0.0   0:01.44 ncp_d_helpserv
22263 root      15   0 38948 7308 5376 S    0  0.0   0:00.16 ncp_agent
27128 root      15   0 40916 7268 5072 S    0  0.0   0:00.37 ncp_config
23442 root      15   0 38936 7232 5424 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 ncp_agent
22378 root      15   0 43464 7212 5192 S    0  0.0   0:00.16 ncp_agent
22234 root      15   0 41988 7192 5184 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 ncp_agent
27129 root      15   0 34908 6860 5528 S    0  0.0   0:00.07 nco_p_ncpmonito
23331 root      15   0 40216 6740 5192 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 ncp_agent
22217 root      15   0 40224 6716 5200 S    0  0.0   0:00.07 ncp_agent
23176 root      15   0 43780 6700 5168 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 ncp_agent
23422 root      15   0 39164 6668 5172 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 ncp_agent
21522 root      16   0 38424 6656 4796 S    0  0.0   0:28.01 kcawd
24560 root      15   0 43784 6608 5380 S    0  0.0   0:01.33 ncp_dh_telnet
22428 root      15   0 39148 6596 5264 S    0  0.0   0:00.05 ncp_agent
22293 root      15   0 40140 6544 5140 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 ncp_agent

any idea or troubleshooting?
thanks a lot
# 2  
Old 02-18-2011
This looks normal to me. Linux uses free memory for cache and buffers, which is immediately released when it is needed.. So you have about 15GiB of free memory
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# 3  
Old 02-18-2011
Mem: 16220M total, 15366M used

so that means those 15366 used are not really used?
# 4  
Old 02-18-2011
Correct. Only a small part of it is actually used.
# 5  
Old 02-18-2011
just read this

Help! Linux ate my RAM!

thanks a lot
# 6  
Old 02-19-2011
That is actually a great article and not seen very often as one of the selling points for switching to Linux.
 
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