Hi all,

We had some downtime today for a few hours due to exceeding an iNode threshold on the server. For some reason my PHP service isn't closing old sessions and it's storing them on the server. It's probably a collection of these small files over a long period of time but it eventually exceeded the settings and the system had a mandatory stop. Anyway, after taking care of the small session files, I was able to bring the system back down to a normal iNode value and the system was rebooted. Not a big deal, but, it took me some time figure out what was going on.

Enjoy!

Mike

Don't feel bad... I remember my first windows program I wrote that had a memory leak... it was fun to see the computer get slower and slower until it ran out of memory Learning.

Thanks Mike, I noticed the site was offline for a while.

Thanks Blue, I had read about memory leaks but didn't know what they caused. I thought they just clobbered a part of memory some other computer program was using and made that other program stop working.

Edited May 14, 201410 yr by Mikes Z car

The program I wrote would load into RAM but I did not unload it on exit/closing. When debugging and developing, I would often stop and restart it. Each time it would consume a new chunk of RAM without ever releasing it. After a while the chunks of memory I allocated but never released would use up all the RAM. Very beginners mistake for me .

Learning experiences can be fun. So that is how memory is managed.

If I remember right the old Apple ][ (A cave man could -- and did-- use it) didn't have newer memory management and programs could and did clobber each other.