That's interesting Jon. I'll look into nbevtmgr.

But one thing I forgot to mention in my previous email is that
restarting NBU does not clear up the issue for me. That makes me think
it might be something to do with PBX or ICS.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Jon Bousselot
<jon-bousselot AT pacbell DOT net> wrote:
> I posted a question just like this back on January 7, 2008, and the
> process that was gradually consuming ram was nbevtmgr.  I have NBU
> running on 32 bit linux, and this process seems to consume resources
> slowly, but I don't have graphs to show its progress.
>
> Restarting NBU (all of it or just nbevtmgr) seems to fix the problem.
> I just checked it now, and after 23 days, it is sitting on 2g of ram.
> Restarting it fixed a lot of things related to performance, and my swap
> utilization went way down.
>
> I'm 6.5.2a.
>
>
> -Jon
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> We are running NBU 6.5.2 on RHEL 4 on Intel X86_64. The master server
>> is a dedicated NBU master, there is one dedicated NBU Media Server
>> (also RHEL 4 x86_64) and several RHEL 5 x86_64 SAN Media Servers.
>>
>> The master has 8 GB of RAM.
>>
>> I am seeing strange constant growth in "commited" memory usage, on the
>> Master server only. Apparently this is memory being requested by an
>> allocation, but not actually being used.
>>
>> It doesn't appear to be causing any problems, other than that memory
>> utilisation graphs look pretty whacky....
>>
>> http://img49.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nbumemoryusagela5.png
>>
>> This is not occuring on any of the media servers. I can't determine
>> what process is allocating the memory.
>>
>> It's a standard RHEL 4 install with no other applications installed of note.
>>
>> I didn't actually notice it until our Linux admin installed this Munin
>> monitoring tool which produced the graphs linked to above, at which
>> time the commited memory was over 300GB. As you can see from the
>> graphs, a reboot obviously clears it all out.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dean
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