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[lerryjee]

First time to the boards. What a great place.

Just last week, our G4 (400) Power Mac server has been experiencing issues.

Memory usage for the OS seems to spike when the server is accessed or used, but once usage stops, the memory usage does not go back down. It keeps climbing and climbing until the computer becomes unresponsive.

We at least figured one small workaround albeit very inconvenient: We are having to, every 15 minutes, go to the computer and reset the memory cache. When we do that, the memory usage on the OS reverts back to more standard levels.

Anyone else experience a similar problem?

Thanks!

[DieHard]

Welcome Lerryjee...

Unfortunately, you post is so vague (Mac OS Exact Version... X... 9 ?, What extensions loaded ?, What Startup Apps ?  ect) that I would not know where to start, but I can tell you that you most likely have a process or program running that has a memory leak, it is requesting memory and not releasing it properly after a task is completed.

These leaks are hard to track down, but with a few good utilities, you can at least monitor and identify which process or application is using more memory and work backwards.