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On Sun, 8 May 2005, Bruce Guenter wrote: > Greetings. > > I am trying to diagnose a slow kernel memory leak, and am having no luck > in pining it down. > > I am currently running unpatched 2.6.12-rc3 (x86 on Gentoo, I saw the > same symptoms with gentoo-sources 2.6.11-r6 and 2.6.11-r4. Over the > course of several days, the server in question has the amount of > available memory (free minus buffers+cache) gradually decrease. If I > leave it go, it does eventually thrash itself to death after about a > week (give or take). The rate is about 150MB per day (the system has > 2GB of RAM total so it takes several days). The working set of > processes remains the same through the whole period at between 50-150MB > (depending on if you count VSZ or RSS). Nothing shows up in dmesg > except for a couple of one-time lockd and nfs messages (the system uses > two remote filesystems). The local filesystems are ReiserFS on a 3Ware > 7500-4 controller, and the NIC is an Intel E100. Try looking at slabtop(1) output after a few days. - 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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