Messages in this thread | | | From | (Thierry Danis) | Subject | Potential memory leakage in 2.2.0 ? | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:34:36 +0100 (MET) |
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Hello,
I let my 2.2.0-final box run other the last days with 'normal' stress. It acts as a NFS server and NFS client as well. ypbind runs also. It is based on a RH 5.2 distribution, running the latest knfsd, autofs etc.
Upon start up, memory used (-/+ buffers/cache line) is less than 5Mb.
After 4 days, only me beeing logged in, with no more processes than 4 days ago, I get more than 20Mb used :
> total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 31016 29840 1176 4688 864 7924 > -/+ buffers/cache: 21052 9964 > Swap: 129020 3400 125620
The same box running a 2.0.36 kernel never shows more than 10Mb after weeks of intense stress (NFS server, NFS client, HTTP, FTP, numerous compilations, etc.) (peaks can be of course higher (~30Mb), but memory gets properly freed).
My question may sound silly (or impertinent ;-), but is the memory management really clean now (it was really bad in the 2.1.129, if I remember well the swap overflow I had, and improved greatly with the latest kernels).
Thanks for any advice,
-- Thierry Danis danis@sagem.fr
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