Sawtooth + Leopard Inexplicably Consuming RAM

[sambapati87]

My Sawtooth (500mhz, 1.75gb, 10.5.4) never has free RAM.

Let me explain.

It is running Leopard, apache, mysql, and TorrentFlux (Python).

When I first boot the machine, 1.5GB of RAM is available. If I sit and watch it on 'top' or Activity Monitor, free RAM steadily decreases by about 5-10mb per second until it stops at around 8mb available. It did this before when I only had 1.5GB of RAM in it, but I added a 256mb module thinking it would give me some breathing room. Nope, it happily ate that up. Under activity monitor, the memory being used is listed as "inactive".

What gives? My MBP with 2GB will sit still at about 1gig of RAM free under normal use.

 

[Christopher]

Repair Permissions?

 

[ealex79]

[] ]'> Look which process exactly eats that RAM.

 

[sambapati87]

That's the thing, the process with the biggest RAM usage is like 40-60mb (Kernel), with a bunch of smaller ones below it. It's like lots of tiny processes are starting but I can't figure out which. I'll see if it only happens once I start the Python torrent scripts (maybe there's a leak), or if it begins from boot.

 

[ealex79]

Hmm well.

If the memory used by the processes is not what's draining your memory usage... you know that almost all free memory is normally eaten up by UNIX systems for the file system cache, right (beeing freed when a program demands memory)? Maybe you are seeing that?

 

[sambapati87]

Hmm well.
If the memory used by the processes is not what's draining your memory usage... you know that almost all free memory is normally eaten up by UNIX systems for the file system cache, right (beeing freed when a program demands memory)? Maybe you are seeing that?

I don't think so, because like I said my Macbook Pro with Leopard doesn't do this.