[clug] Memory Leak In cAosity

[Sam Couter]

Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> I had a problem a while ago where something was chewing up memory to  
> the point that my database was aborting many transactions due to lack  
> of available RAM, and the Apache server was aborting many CGI scripts  
> for the same reason - though to be technically correct, the kernel  
> logs were telling me that Linux was simply terminating the biggest  
> memory users. I was never able to figure out what was actually eating  
> up the RAM

You want Solaris' dtrace. Here's a neat example of it in use to track
down short-lived processes that are hammering a machine:

http://www.filibeto.org/aduritz/truetrue/solaris10/dtrace-intro.html
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