How to use kdump/crash to investigate an OOM issue?

The problem A server crashed after multiple “Out of memory” messages and I am trying to pinpoint the culprit. If it is in userland – which process. If it is in the kernel – which kernel module. Details I am trying to find out how to use the crash utility to investigate what triggered an … Read more

Something eats all memory (I suspect memory leak on some app). How to detect what?

I have server which runs liquidsoap+icecast bundle and simple website (httpd+mysqld). Nothing special. Visitors around 2000+ per day, with around 50 being online simultaneously on average. Server has 8GB RAM. As the time goes by, amount of free memory constantly decreases, although nothing new is started on server and there are no new users. At … Read more

How to limit the memory used by an application in IIS?

The IIS worker processes are taking lot of memory on our servers. I want to limit the memory each application can use. I am confused whether I should set a limit on Virtual Memory Limit, or Private Memory Limit. Each application in our IIS is on its own application pool. If I set private memory … Read more

Memory error while using keras

I am using keras for CNN but the problem is that there is memory leak. The error is anushreej@cpusrv-gpu-109:~/12EC35005/MTP_Workspace/MTP$ python cnn_implement.py Using Theano backend. [INFO] compiling model… Traceback (most recent call last): File “cnn_implement.py”, line 23, in <module> model = CNNModel.build(width=150, height=150, depth=3) File “/home/ms/anushreej/12EC35005/MTP_Workspace/MTP/cnn/networks/model_define.py”, line 27, in build model.add(Dense(depth*height*width)) File “/home/ms/anushreej/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/models.py”, line 146, in … Read more

How do I find out if my cpu is affected by the intel memory leak?

info: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme My computer has an intel CPU but is pretty old, from 2007, maybe earlier, so I am holding out hope that it might not be affected by this, but how do I find out? I’ve got a few computers I want to check. I’ve got system profiler and benchmark which tells me … Read more

no text entry or keyboard capabilities in firefox browser when running in firejail, or regular usrspace after reboot

Ubuntu 16.0.4.3 Gnome Desktop I have no text entry or keyboard capabilities in my firefox browser when running in firejail, or regular usrspace. Running: firejail firefox –noprofile results in a firefox browser that will connect successfully to bookmarked links, but wont receive any keyboard input. I then tried running firefox outside firejail in regular usrspace … Read more

Gnome shell launcher is popping many pages dots after exiting app folder collections, Ubuntu 20.04

Gnome shell app folder bug: I’m using Ubuntu 20.04 for long time and since the beginning that above is occurring many times, my only hope was that it would be fixed with the final stable gnome version 3.36.3. But that didn’t happened, the bug is very annoying and persistent (even with restarts) and recently the … Read more

Very high cache usage causing slowdown

I’m trying to identify the culprit of what’s causing my personal computer to be extremely sluggish. The biggest suspect is memory. When the computer is running fast my cache memory looks normal. However when it’s running slow it looks like this: luke@Luke-XPS-13:~$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7830 1111 1090 277 … Read more