[Bubblemon-list] Re: Bubblemon problem

[Johan Walles]

Try "free -m" and look at the middle row (the one starting with "-/+ 
buffers/cache"), that should give you the same values as bubblemon.  If you want 
to find what process is using up your memory, you could try running "top" and 
pressing shift-M to sort the processes by memory usage.

If you want to know exactly how Bubblemon is measuring memory, read FAQ#6 at:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/bubblemon/bubblemon/FAQ?rev=1.23&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

... or in /usr/share/doc/bubblemon.

  Cheers //Johan

Chris Gonnerman wrote:
> OK, I lied.  It's not a problem with Bubblemon.  Not exactly...
>
> According to Bubblemon, my SuSE 8.0 system upgraded to
> GNOME 2.0 is leaking memory.  When I restart, log in, and
> look at Bubblemon while idling, it says something like 54 Mb
> is used, but after a couple of days it's up to 80-90 Mb.
>
> This isn't your problem; I'm just looking for a way to track
> down what program is leaking memory.  How does Bubblemon
> arrive at the figure of memory used?  I've tried
>
>    ps -eo pid,pmem,args
>
> but the total of the memory column seems to be nonsense.
>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>
> -- Chris.