Strong memory leakage

[Dmitriy Tarasov]

Memory leak?

Hello.
Recently I added 1Gb of RAM. After that I noticed that all 2Gb exhausts during 24 hours at that I have about 10 mysql and 10 apache processes. I was tried to restart apache and mysql but it helps a little. The only medicine is reboot after which I also have about 10 mysql and 10 apache processes but amount of used memory is about 0.4Gb.

My OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
Apache 1.3.37
DirectAdmin 1.29.2
Exim 4.60
MySQL 4.1.21
Named 9.2.4
ProFTPd 1.2.10

I was asked my data center what is the matter? They say that it may be problem of apache configuration but the same configuration was before adding new block of RAM.
Could you, please, advise how to solve the problem.

 

[floyd]

Linux will always use all available ram. Its called being efficient. The important thing is to see how much swap is being used. If not much swap is being used then you are not out of ram.

 

[Dmitriy Tarasov]

Thank you, amount of used swap is zero