In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011240232590.265-100000@rusty.russwhit.com> Russ Whitaker writes:

Hi

suggestion: a script to take a snapshot of the /proc filesystem so you can find what's growing

take a look at dir /proc and cat /proc/<ID>/status or cat /proc/<ID>/maps

The application has been running for some 21 hours now, and I've been taking occasional snapshots both of status and maps. status shows VmSize and VmRSS growing. maps shows the end of the rwxp region that starts at 08171000 growing - can I deduce anything more from this? (for example is it likely to be Pascal heap space or something else?). Both status and maps snapshots follow. Any further suggestions will be gratefully received ... status ====== Name: webmake.e State: S (sleeping) Pid: 27006 PPid: 31555 Uid: 500 500 500 500 Gid: 500 500 500 500 Groups: 500 VmSize: 110776 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmRSS: 108340 kB VmData: 107944 kB VmStk: 84 kB VmExe: 1172 kB VmLib: 1360 kB SigPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 800000000000a006 SigCgt: 0000000008094000 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 maps ==== 08048000-0816d000 r-xp 00000000 03:07 32300 /var/rally/bin/webmake.e 0816d000-08171000 rw-p 00124000 03:07 32300 /var/rally/bin/webmake.e 08171000-0e9d0000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 40000000-40013000 r-xp 00000000 03:05 34138 /lib/ld-2.1.3.so 40013000-40014000 rw-p 00012000 03:05 34138 /lib/ld-2.1.3.so 40014000-40015000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 40015000-40016000 r--p 00000000 03:06 94 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES 40016000-40017000 r--p 00000000 03:06 96660 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MONETARY 40017000-40018000 r--p 00000000 03:06 96662 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_TIME 40018000-40019000 r--p 00000000 03:06 96661 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_NUMERIC 4001a000-4001b000 rwxs 00000000 00:00 0 4001b000-4001e000 r-xp 00000000 03:06 96925 /usr/lib/libpanel.so.4.0 4001e000-4001f000 rw-p 00002000 03:06 96925 /usr/lib/libpanel.so.4.0 4001f000-40054000 r-xp 00000000 03:06 96923 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.0 40054000-4005d000 rw-p 00034000 03:06 96923 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.0 4005d000-40061000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 40061000-4007d000 r-xp 00000000 03:05 34156 /lib/libm-2.1.3.so 4007d000-4007e000 rw-p 0001b000 03:05 34156 /lib/libm-2.1.3.so 4007e000-4016b000 r-xp 00000000 03:05 34145 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so 4016b000-4016f000 rw-p 000ec000 03:05 34145 /lib/libc-2.1.3.so 4016f000-40174000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 40174000-4017c000 r--p 00000000 03:06 96658 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_COLLATE 4017c000-40192000 r--p 00000000 03:06 96659 /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_CTYPE 40192000-401cc000 rwxs 00000000 00:00 0 401cc000-40292000 rwxs 00000000 00:00 0 bffeb000-c0000000 rwxp fffec000 00:00 0 -- David James mailto:david@tcs01.demon.co.uk Special Stage Rally results archive <URL:http://www.tcs01.demon.co.uk/>