Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 May 1999 06:21:44 +0000 | From | Jon Dugan <> | Subject | 2.0.36-3 memory leak?? |
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Linux Kernel list,
I am having trouble with linux and it appears to be a memory leak in the
operating system... I am still pretty new to Linux, I have been running
a system for about 6 months.
I started with Redhat v5.2, which had kernel 2.0.36-0.7 I upgraded it with an RPM from RedHat to 2.0.36-3 without any problems. I then reconfigured it for SMP and recompiled the kernel. In general it seemed
to be wworking fine for a while. I don't know when this leak began.
I am running a dual pentium II machine. Below is a sample output from my machine: It is clear that anything I run leads to permanent loss of free memory, launching large applications chunks out up to 10 MB that is not recovered. What have I done? How can I fix this?
Thanks! Jon dugan@stanford.edu (please cc this email with responses, I could not figure out how to get on the email list)
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<bowser 2 ~>free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127476 88668 38808 35556 18684 39184 -/+ buffers/cache: 30800 96676 Swap: 72288 0 72288 <bowser 3 ~>ls ... <bowser 4 ~>ls ... <bowser 5 ~>free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127476 88672 38804 35556 18684 39184 -/+ buffers/cache: 30804 96672 Swap: 72288 0 72288 <bowser 6 ~>locate blah /usr/doc/which-1.0/blah /usr/doc/which-1.0/blah/Makefile /usr/share/icons/mini/mini-blah.xpm <bowser 7 ~>free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 127476 88800 38676 35588 18684 39240 -/+ buffers/cache: 30876 96600 Swap: 72288 0 72288
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