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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:35:54AM -0800, you [Mike Fedyk] wrote: > > > > I don't know if there is a kernel memory leak, since all user level > > processes should be killed at that point, right? Unfortunately I didn't have > > time to dig deeper, as the box is in (sort of) production. > > Maybe, it depends on your init scripts. Does your distribution do a kill -9 > of all processes before turning off swap? (It's a 7.0 Red Hat). It does runcmd "Sending all processes the KILL signal..." /sbin/killall5 -9 before [ -n "$SWAPS" ] && runcmd "Turning off swap: " swapoff $SWAPS in /etc/rc6.d/S01reboot and I've seen the "Sending all processes the KILL signal..." message appear before the memory freeing loop starts rolling. -- v -- v@iki.fi - 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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