Re: memory leak??

Mitchell B. Wagers ( (no email) )
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:21:03 -0800

Also, wasn't there a post previously regarding this situation?
I can't remember if someone said SQL is default to 2048k chunks, which
makes that 200mb instead of 100. If I'm wrong, oh well. :) You still
shouldn't have a swap file less than your physical ram.

At 09:15 AM 1/20/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>You shouldn't have a swap file smaller than your physical memory.
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>At 10:06 AM 1/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>I recently discovered a nasty memory leak in one of our servers and would
>>love to know if anyone's got a cure for it. At the moment, I have no idea
>>where it's coming from. The machine is a dual-Pentium 133 with 256MB RAM
>>and 64MB swapfile; NT 4.0 SP3 with some hot-fixes. It was last rebooted a
>>few days before Christmas '97. According to Task Manager, about 172MB are
>>being used (added all the memory being used by the processes), but it says
>>that 278MB of 309MB is being used.
>>
>>I have 3 screenshots from Task Manager and NT Diagnostics while not running
>>any programs other than what's always running in the background:
>> http://www.talstar.com/support/temp/task-manager1.jpg
>> http://www.talstar.com/support/temp/task-manager2.jpg
>> http://www.talstar.com/support/temp/nt-diagnostics-memory.jpg
>>
>>The primary applications that run on it are:
>> SQL Server 6.5 (SP3)
>> 100MB of RAM is allocated to SQL (2*50000), though Task Manager
>> reports that 80 is actually being used.
>> The data part of the db is allocated 50MB of diskspace
>> The log is allocated 25MB of diskspace on a separate device
>> MS DNS
>> RadiusNT 2.2.41 (service)
>> Serv-U FTP (with srvany.exe)
>>
>>Applications that I frequently run on this machine are:
>> Emerald 2.1.11 (crashes periodically, stating that "someusername"
>> is already in use; Invalid procedure call)
>> MSIE 3.02 (minimal usage)
>> MS Internet Mail
>> Windows NT Explorer
>> ISQL/w
>> Notepad, Wordpad, cmd, nslookup, whois, telnet
>>
>>I just noticed that Emerald uses around 9MB of RAM, but when closed, the
>>memory usage only dropped about 6MB. I don't if this is "normal" or not,
>>but if not, I suppose opening and closing this day in and day out could
>>possibly account for the huge amount of memory that can't be accounted
>>for...
>>
>>If anyone has and ideas, I'd sure appreciate it. I wouldn't consider the
>>constant rebooting of the server to be much of a cure for this...
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Josh Hillman
>>hillman@talstar.com
>>
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