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Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar> wrote: > > I want to report a memory leak for 2.6.0-test5 that I've noticed today on > a mail server after 32 days of uptime. > > As I'm upgrading it tomorrow to test7 I wasn't going to report this until > verifying if the behaviour continued, but I saw on kernelnewbies that > others were having this issue with test7 too, so I decided to post a > report with the information before I reboot the server. > > The attached files are gzipped for space reasons, and were taken at night > when the server isn't very loaded. > > The workload is a simple sendmail with ipop3d and imapd, nothing much, for > about 6500 users; the machine is a dual Pentium III with 1gb of RAM and a > couple of SCSI disks. > > Slabinfo reports that size-4096 has 104341 active objects and growing. > > On another box at home I see the same issue with test6, but "only" with > 11612 objects; I'm not posting info on this box as I guess the mailserver > is much more important because the leak is really noticeable. At least I'm not the only one; my main desktop machine does the same thing. It leaks two megabytes a day into size-4096, like clockwork. It's up to 43 megs now. I was ignoring it and hoping it would go away. Ho hum. Tricky. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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