[RndTbl] extra roundtable meetings / kppp grief
Ian Timshel
itschaotic at yahoo.ca
Wed Dec 11 10:41:29 CST 2002
Hi all.
Thanks Shawn for putting out the effort to present the Gentoo introduction
last night.
I live an hour south of Winnipeg so it's not an easy jaunt to come in to
another meeting.. it's not even easy to come in once a month...heh I'd
like to see this list forum used more, but it seems that most take those
energies elsewhere. If I was closer I'd certainly benefit from more
contact with you guys.
kppp trouble:
I run a Redhat 7.2 box with the Redhat 2.4.9-34 kernel with:
Qt: 2.3.2
KDE: 2.2.2-3
KPPP: 2.0.9
Duron 1.2
384 megs RAM
I am having some trouble with kppp. At least I think so... It is growing
in it's memory use and eventually causing me to have to shut it down.
However I'd love to learn to be able to prove such a thing. I can't keep
this machine up for more than a couple weeks without trouble. I ask these
questions to attempt to correct this. The problems probably haven't shown
up until now because I am stuck on a dial up and only recently got a
dedicated dial-up line... even that sucks, but that's what I get for living
in the bush.. heh.
I yanked out kdenetwork-ppp-2.2.2-2
and reinstalled this kppp containing rpm but that didn't change the fact
that when I start kppp and connect with it, its resident memory size is
about 10700k, and several hours later it has more than doubled to 25000k.
Granted... I don't know if this is normal, but other programs don't seem to
do this... I don't know what the memory size is after a couple of weeks, or
even days as I just noticed this yesterday.
Obviously I'm grasping at straws here to try and stabilise this box
further. I've been monitoring with "ps aux" and periodically have to "kill
-9" to some lame process or other but other than that I can't see any other
misbehaviour that would cause the stability to deteriorate. No doubt
there are a gazillion other possibilities.
Could someone suggest an approach for tracing or fixing this problem. I
could work up a script to connect to my isp instead of using kppp as I have
done in the past but I'd like to know how to rectify this problem
regardless.
Any suggestions would be very welcome.
Cheers! Ian.
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