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SubjectRe: Slow, persistent memory leak in 2.6.20

On Aug 26 2007 11:51, Fred Tyler wrote:
>On 8/26/07, Fred Tyler <fredty8@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think I've come across a memory leak in 2.6.20. I've upgraded to the
>> latest 2.6.20.17, but it didn't seem to help.
>
>Sorry to keep replying to my own post, but further investigation
>suggests that the memory losses may be occurring at times of heavy
>filesystem access. The machines in question run rsyncs of hundreds of
>thousands of files every few hours, and I'm starting to think that the
>memory loss occurs during these times. I don't know how I'd go about
>proving this though...

Please rule out filesystem caches by issuing
sync;
echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches;



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