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DateSun, 12 Jan 1997 13:59:54 -0800 (PST)
FromRob Glover <>
SubjectRe: Memory leaks?
I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try upgrading your ld.so to
1.8.5, and libc to 5.4.17.  

						-Rob

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 bre@mmedia.is wrote:

> 
> I have been having trouble with what appears to be a memory leak in my 
> system.  I don't know where exactly the problem lies, but the following
> daemons seem to eat up memory without giving it back..
> 
> 	ypserv
> 	rpc.nfsd
> 	portmap
> 
> The nfs daemon swallows memory much much faster than the other two, and it 
> seems to use more memory the more the NFS is used, which is very bad since
> I am trying to use the nfsroot capabilities of Linux to boot two other 
> machines off this one.
> 
> For some reason the daemons all seem to go berzerk at once too, which also
> seems rather strange.  It seems only marginally related to general system 
> load, one user using tar or find can be enough to set it off, and once it
> has started it doesn't stop until I kill the processes.
> 
> My "workaround" is to kill those processes every twenty minutes with (via
> cron), which isn't an optimal solution at all.  I am using the following 
> libraries and kernel:
> 
> 	Linux kernel 2.0.21
> 	ld.so.1.7.14
> 	libc.so.5.3.12 
> 	(basically libraries from redhat 3.0.3 with some 4.0 upgrades)
> 
> I did not have this problem using a system based on slackware 2 & 3 and 
> Linux 1.2.13.
> 
> Any hints are greatly appreciated...  
> 
> .. also, what happens to NFSroot systems if the root paritition becomes
> temporarily unusable (e.g. when I kill the NFS daemon)?  Couldn't this cause
> random OOPSes or other problems?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
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