Niall Donegan wrote:
> Any handy programs out there for finding out what program on a running
> system is leaking memory. I know about stuff like valgrind, leaky and
> their kin, but they either require to run the software to be run on top of
> them or to have a library compiled in.
>> I'm looking for something that can be thrown into an already running
> system (LAMP based) and point me at what is causing the trouble.
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
Well from outside an app you don't know whether mem is
being allocated legitimately or being leaked.
A good indication though would be to see which programs
were increasing in size over time. How about this:
watch --differences=cumulative "ps -e -o pmem=,rss=,args= | sort -b
-k1,1n | tail"
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