[K12OSN] Clearing the server memmory

Burke Almquist balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Sun Mar 6 02:25:29 UTC 2005


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You might try looking at using pkill to kill user processes instead of  
rebooting.
(see 'man pkill')
Don't want to ruin the uptime. After all, rebooting is for adding  
hardware (or maybe kernel updates).
On Mar 5, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Brian Beck wrote:

> M.Pribik wrote:
>> During several days of server running I found out
>> that some processes are staying in memmory, they belong
>> to the root or to the real users that is not lodged on any more.
>> Those processes are taking memmory uselessly.
>> Does anybody know how to find out what processes are really needless  
>> /mainly from root/
>> and how safely remove them from the memmory?
>>  Thank you. Marian
>>   
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> I simply set up a cron job on my LTSP server to reboot the server at  
> 1AM every day.  Clears the memory and starts anew.
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