Archive for August 29th, 2005

Posted on August 29, 2005 - by jono

Suggestions?

Thanks for all the comments about which SVN viewer to use. It think it is safe to say that Trac is a highly recommended choice. If I can make it fit in with my current directory structure (this could even be done with mod_rewrite) I think I will run it. This is a shame in some ways because I have just spent two days hacking something similar in PHP.

Last night I added GNOME iRiver to the repository (svn). I was gonna do some hacking but I felt like kicking back and watching 24. Watched two or three episodes and zonked out.

Now, I would like to solicit some advice from you folks. The server that jonobacon.org is running on has recently been upgraded to Debian Sarge, but something is eating all the memory and the machine is becoming unusable, usually requiring a reboot. We want to find out exactly what is doing this. Does anyone know of a way of finding out how much memory each unique process is using? top doesn’t help as it reports shared memory (e.g. Python may report 10MB but this is shared between all the Python processes). We basically want to find out how the memory is being sucked up. Ideally it would be great if we could have a list of processes and how they eat memory and the end of the list is when the machine goes down. This can tell us which software is buggering it up. Any suggestions?

Back to work tomorrow…