Hello,
Our server has become unreachable 3 times in a month to the point that it had to be hand rebooted. According to theplanet staff, the server ran out of memory. This server has very low traffic and it runs a php applications that for a long time ran on a shared server without any problems. We migrated it as is.
Question is, how can I find out in linux what is eating our memory ? Are there any logs or are there any programs I could install to track memory usage ?
Thanks so much.
Full Version: Out of Memory
QUOTE (guischarf @ Dec 16 2007, 09:04 PM) 
Hello,
Our server has become unreachable 3 times in a month to the point that it had to be hand rebooted. According to theplanet staff, the server ran out of memory. This server has very low traffic and it runs a php applications that for a long time ran on a shared server without any problems. We migrated it as is.
Question is, how can I find out in linux what is eating our memory ? Are there any logs or are there any programs I could install to track memory usage ?
Thanks so much.
Our server has become unreachable 3 times in a month to the point that it had to be hand rebooted. According to theplanet staff, the server ran out of memory. This server has very low traffic and it runs a php applications that for a long time ran on a shared server without any problems. We migrated it as is.
Question is, how can I find out in linux what is eating our memory ? Are there any logs or are there any programs I could install to track memory usage ?
Thanks so much.
free mem
also
top will show you the processes that are using the most CPU / MEM.
that will show you available physical memory, as well as swap.
Have you done any hardening / optimization of the server? Such as installing "SIM" to monitor processes...theres a few others out there I can't think of right now..I'll have to look it up or maybe someone else will know.
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