[systemd-devel] Systemd service taking huge memory

[Cristian Rodríguez]

El 08-11-2018 a las 11:02, deepan muthusamy escribió:
> If I start my application as system service, it is consuming huge 
> memory. This leads to my system getting slow down.
> If I start manually, it's not consuming that much memory.
> 
> What can be the possible reasons?

Your application has a memory leak on a path that is only excercised 
when started as a permanently running application..hard to tell without 
a concrete example and memory usage data.. use

#pmap $(pidof yourprogram)
and see if the PSS size keeps growing or what.