This page describes additional documentation, links to related sites, examples of scripts, etcetera.

Documentation

This article describes the analysis of a system suffering from a process with a memory leakage.

Online manual pages of atop(1), atopsar(1) and atoprc(5).

Scripts

The tar archive atopscripts (1.0) contains scripts to be used to process output of atop/atopsar:

• findleak
  Script that displays an overview of the virtual memory growth per process during the last 14 days (the daily memory size of processes at 5:00 PM is taken). Processes that were only present for 1 day and processes that did not grow are ignored. The list shows per process the PID and process name, how many days the process has lived (max. 14 days), the total growth of the virtual memory consumption during that number of days, and the growth per day (in MiB).
  Notice that not every process that grows is a process suffering from a memory leak! Mainly processes that have a daily growth are suspects.