Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 97 14:39 | | From | (Krzysztof Strasburger) | | Subject | Re: Memory leak in 2.0.33 ?? |
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>*PLEASE* tell me I'm a luser and that 2.0.33 does NOT have a >memory leak as I heavily suspect. > >The only change in my system has been the kernel - going from .30 >to .31. I've got Netscape 4.03 running, and PINE, as well as 3 >other console sessions, and my PPP link. I've got 32M of RAM on >an AMD-K5-133, and normally my system NEVER swaps. Since my >initial boot today, all I've ran is one pine session, and >Netscape, and a few bash sessions, midnight commander. Thats it. >On a 32meg system, I normally have tonnes and oodles of free >memory, or else a lot of cached data. I never swap unless I do >compiling while using netscape while playing Quake while...... > >Right now, I have 16M of swap used up, and it keeps getting >worse. It seems when I look at a new web page, the hard disk >starts going wild. > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: >Mem: 31760384 29810688 1949696 13037568 843776 7430144 >Swap: 34058240 15798272 18259968 >MemTotal: 31016 kB >MemFree: 1904 kB >MemShared: 12732 kB >Buffers: 824 kB >Cached: 7256 kB >SwapTotal: 33260 kB Hi all... It looks like the swap cache bug. I have posted a fix for it many times to this list and it was even fixed in pre-2.0.31-2, but things look bad. Linus probably decided to keep the bug forever in the kernel. I suppose, it is still present in the 2.1.xx kernels... If you have ram >= swap, swap > 0 - be ready for crash! You can find the fix (for older kernel, but it should be applicable to the newer too) on Linux Mama (http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama). Krzysztof Strasburger
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