[Gllug] Troubleshooting Memory Leak

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 24 17:50:12 UTC 2009


2009/3/24 Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com>:
> I have a CentOS 5 server running nginx, httpd and a dozen or so
> mongrel instances.  Since this morning I've been experiencing a
> serious memory leak - about 2G in 2 hours,

Looking at /proc/meminfo what is growing?

You can drop your caches using
http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_drop_caches.html

I would think this would do you no good really - need to find out
which resource is leaking.
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