Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:52:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Slow, persistent memory leak in 2.6.20 |
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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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