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Questions tagged [memory-leak]

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How to limit the memory used by an application in IIS?

The IIS worker processes are taking lot of memory on our servers. I want to limit the memory each application can use. I am confused whether I should set a limit on Virtual Memory Limit, or Private Memory Limit. Each application in our IIS is on its…
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Something eats all memory (I suspect memory leak on some app). How to detect what?

I have server which runs liquidsoap+icecast bundle and simple website (httpd+mysqld). Nothing special. Visitors around 2000+ per day, with around 50 being online simultaneously on average. Server has 8GB RAM. As the time goes by, amount of free…
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How to use kdump/crash to investigate an OOM issue?

The problem A server crashed after multiple "Out of memory" messages and I am trying to pinpoint the culprit. If it is in userland - which process. If it is in the kernel - which kernel module. Details I am trying to find out how to use the crash…
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WmiPrvSE memory leak on Windows 2008 *R2*

I've seen references on Windows 2008 to WmiPrvSE leaks, but nothing about Windows 2008 R2. We're running R2 on top of Hyper-V (2008). We are also running NSClient++ for monitoring from opsview. Over time, WmiPrvSE.exe starts to use a lot of memory,…
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Baffling Memory leak. What is using ~10GB of memory on this system?

After running for about 18 hours, this system is using ~10GB of memory, causing the OOM-killer to be triggered when we run our usual tasks: # free -h total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 14G …
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Windows 2012 Core Extreme memory use on SVCHOST/Workstation service

We have approximately 200 servers, Hyper V, File Cluster, and IIS, that are all experiencing the same issue, an event occurs on the server through normal use that maxes out or near maxes out the RAM on the server. Once this happens, the…
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Where's my memory?! Nginx + PHP-FPM front end webserver slows to a crawl

I'm not sure if I have a problem with a memory leak (as my hosting company suggests), or if we both need to read http://linuxatemyram.com. Maybe you clever people can help us out? This is a front-end webserver VM running essentially only nginx &…
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What is nonpaged pool?

I have a Server 2008 R2 that I maintain on a day-to-day basis. The server is good and operating fine but it keeps sending me event 2019 error logs. "The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty." Is…
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Loads of memory in "standby" on Windows Server 2008 R2

In our SharePoint farm, our Web Front End servers all have loads of memory in "standby" mode, meaning very little is available for our IIS worker process. We have 32 GB of RAM in each of the boxes, and standby memory will creep up to about 28 GB,…
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Is my Apache2 setup leaking memory?

Recently, I've noticed that my apache uses absurd amounts of memory on my Linode server (80MB more than it used to), and restarting apache2 seems to fix the issue. I run SVN over apache, as well as mysql and tomcat on the server, but neither seems…
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Server 2012 R2 Exchange 2013 Handle Leak

I have a DAG setup with Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013 running on three Servers plus another Server for a lagged copy. We appear to be having a handle leak on all of the Servers, it doesn't seem to matter if they are hosting the databases or not.…
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Too many invalid handles in System process

I have experienced increase of invalid handles in System process (Windows Server 2008R2 x64). The amount is approximately 1,000,000 per week. According to Process Explorer the handle type is file. From the task manager it seems the memory is not…
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How to debug Node + Socket.io CPU Issues

We are running a Node Socket.io server with Express 3. The server is monitored using Forever. The service is running well, but the CPU grows throughout the day, until it reaches 90%+ and then suddenly drops back down to ~20%, as shown in the graphs…
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Does my Centos server leak memory?

I'm getting some conflicting information regarding the memory use of a virtualized server. The most alarming information is this: Note that the server has only 4GB of RAM allocated, even though committed shows 12GB. Also, if i run ps aux | grep…
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ASP.NET app eating memory. Application / Session objects the reason?

So we're stress testing an ASP.NET application developed by an external company. We're doing roughly 50 requests per second, and after about half an hour each of the 48 worker process (w3wp.exe) is up to about 400 MB and counting. Running on…
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