Questions tagged [memory-leak]
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80% memory utilization on server- is this just caching?
Memory utilization is very high on this 2008 R2 server, but I think it might just be caching RAM- performance on the server is fine and CPU utilization is very low. It is running DFSR which I believe claims a lot of RAM.
So here is what I see in…
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Ubuntu 14.04 server - Out of memory (OOM killer) - what is causing my memory issue/leak?
I try to find the cause why my server gets out of memory every few weeks and calls the OOM killer. It seems to be that memory usage is stable for about 2 weeks, then going up gradually for 2 weeks. Then there is a big hike resulting in an OOM call.…
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Xorg in an embedded system--leaking memory?
I'm working on an embedded system that runs a custom Linux platform and it appears that the Xorg process is leaking memory. According to top, Xorg's virtual memory grows until the system crashes. According to /proc/$pid/status, its VmPeak will grow…
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memory leak in nonpaged "file" tag
I have a Windows 2012 R2 std. server with a memory leak. Something tells me that the leak started after we installed Symantic Endpoint protection 12.1.5 - but I am not sure. I tried to disable Symantic without any change to the memory leak.
Using…
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ES fills up heap slowly over time and hangs at 14GB, while biggest index is 164MB?
I have an issue with Elasticsearch, at some times, it tries to run GC continously since this one is unable to free because heap size set to 14GB (min and max) is said to be completely allocated:
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[2014-09-18 13:43:45,984][INFO ][monitor.jvm …
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Memory used by unknown processes on OEL6 - without cache and slabcache
I've searched through "Where is my Linux memory?" questions, but I couldn't find a similar scenario for my kind of leak:
OEL 6.3 x86_64 Linux with 6GB of RAM
without any of my main components running (2 tomcat, MySQL, Grizzly-based web container)…
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Poolmon Nonp total bytes not equal to Perfmon Memory > Nonpaged Pool Bytes
We are monitoring a server for a potential Nonpaged Pool memory leak. So we setup a cmd batch file to output to the Nonpaged Pool allocation every 10 mins. We also setup a perfmon counter log to capture Memory > Nonpaged Pool Bytes. As well as an…
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Our RAM usage is high, including -/+ buffer/cache, but top has no answers
We are running CentOS 6 with a PHP web application.
After we pushed a new version live it seems we have a memory issue, however top does not show any high usage instances. I have looked around and people suggest checking out free, to check if it is…
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Matt Votsikas McLean
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Tracking Individual Processes in Windows Server 2008, Is It Possible?
I'm hoping we can get a solution together on this. I'm looking to try and narrow down what's happening on a windows server 2008 box that's causing us to have to reboot every 2 weeks. Resource monitor would show that there's some sort of memory…
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DNSCache excesive memory usage Windows Server 2008 R2
We are having an issue with the dnscache service where its memory usage is becoming excessive (~6GB) after a week or two.
Restarting the service frees this memory but performing ipconfig /flushdns does not, an ipconfig /displaydns shows aprox 15-20…
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How To find the memory leak?
Im preparing a web-server and have already installed Wordpress on it. Everything worked fine. But instantly, the memory usage went up. Now I only have 300MB of memory free. To check the problem, I disabled some services like php, nginx, fail2ban,…
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Apache with mod_perl eating memory when idle
An Apache webserver running a mod_perl application is exposing abnormal memory usage - after the "day load" ceases, the system's memory is being exhausted by the Apache processes and oom_killer is being invoked. As the load returns the following…
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MaxRequestsPerChild equivalent for Jboss?
We have an application running on Jboss that's leaking memory and from to time to time, this causes the server to go into swap and crash.
I know the correct way to solve this is to find the root cause of the leakage, but at the moment I really need…
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Memory Leak in Tomcat
I'm using Tomcat 6.0, JDK 1.6 for a web app.
It's dying frequently requiring manual reboots, and the log file shows this:
Notice: Maximum number of threads (200) created for connector with address null and port 80
Followed by this:
Notice:…
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Any known SQL Server 2008 Management Studio memory leak issues?
I'm not sure whether this question belongs here or to StackOverflow. I'm attempting here, since my question is in regards of memory leaks and management stuff more than programming.
I have a SQL script which I attempt to run and everytime the server…
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