Sorry I disappeared last night but it got too late here... I think the one that's dying off is CPU, not MEM. Here are the first lines of a top:
78 processes: 75 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 64.5% user, 35.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 523876K av, 512380K used, 11496K free, 0K shrd, 79872K buff
Swap: 136512K av, 1444K used, 135068K free 305336K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
7118 mysql 15 0 12696 12M 1528 R 0 96.6 2.4 349:17 mysqld
7115 dropzone 0 0 24164 23M 1376 S 0 2.1 4.6 7:25 perl
20446 dropzone 2 0 900 900 668 R 0 0.9 0.1 0:00 top
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.1 0.0 290:21 kupdate It's a UNIX system yes.
Safe swoops
Sangiro
Code:
7:12am up 47 days, 12 min, 2 users, load average: 1.29, 1.14, 1.12 78 processes: 75 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 64.5% user, 35.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 523876K av, 512380K used, 11496K free, 0K shrd, 79872K buff
Swap: 136512K av, 1444K used, 135068K free 305336K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
7118 mysql 15 0 12696 12M 1528 R 0 96.6 2.4 349:17 mysqld
7115 dropzone 0 0 24164 23M 1376 S 0 2.1 4.6 7:25 perl
20446 dropzone 2 0 900 900 668 R 0 0.9 0.1 0:00 top
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.1 0.0 290:21 kupdate
Safe swoops
Sangiro