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SubjectRE: 2.2.12 Memory Leak?
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Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On Thu Sep 02 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> [buffer cache leak]
> > Can you see if 2.2.13pre3 fixes the leak
>
> I'm afraid it isn't fixed.
>
> As I can see it so far it behaves just like the clean 2.2.12,
> buffer cache is filled, then free mem gets filled and the
> swap memory increases also more and more. A few runs of innd
> crunching the newsspool/-databases will show it.

Same initially showed here but straightened out after a several hours. That
was part of why I waited 3 days before reporting back. Buffers and free mem
do get released but perhaps not fast enough on a system with higher load and
faster chip than my poor old one? :)

> I'll try it one or two days in addition to see if it's really
> this thing we talk about, but I'm very afraid it is.

I hope not.

Lourdes


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