Whats eating my memory? [closed]

Question

I often face the problem that something is eating away on my memory, but I can't put my finger on what it is.

I have redis, mysql, ruby, php and apache running on the same server, it's been running fine, but all of a sudden something is consuming too much memory. The TOP command doesn't tell me anything that worries me.

How can I find the problem?

Answer 1

Try htop in a screen session, press F6, order by MEM, and you'll see that. Alternatively you can set up a munin-node, and get a graph that visualizes your system-behavior. atop -m also works very well for me. Some systems hide super-use processes. In that case perform your analysis as root.