Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Severe Linux 2.4 kernel memory leakage | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 25 Nov 2001 18:03:10 +0100 |
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"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> writes:
> "A month of sundays ago Chris Chabot wrote:" > > The box has ran Redhat 7.1 and 7.2, with plain vanilla linux kernels > > 2.4.9 upto 2.4.15, in all situations the same problem appeared. > > > > The problem is that when the box boots up, it uses about 60Mb of memory. > > However after only 1 1/2 days, the memory usage is already around 430Mb > > (!!). (this is ofcource used - buffers - cache, as displayed by 'free'). > > I also have this problem. Unknown circumstances provoke it. Kernel > 2.4.9 to 2.4.13. When it occurs I lose about 30MB a day.
Compare snapshots of /proc/slabinfo before and after.
It may be completely harmless; e.g. a slab cache. free is unfortunately quite misleading with newer kernels; it doesn't give information about many important caches (e.g. not about the slab caches)
-Andi
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