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SubjectRe: possible (ext4 related?) memory leak in kernel 2.6.26
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:27:29PM +0200, Quentin Godfroy wrote:
> Hi lists,
>
> I'd like to report the following problem : after ~ 10 days' uptime on a
> Debian 2.6.26-1-686 kernel, my system becomes extremely sluggish and
> unresponsive and the OOM-killer starts targeting even innocent processes like
> identd or rsync (when the swap is disabled). The machine is low on RAM (192
> MB) but this has never been a problem before. As for the slowness, strace
> shows that the brk() syscall takes ages to complete; the blocking processes
> are in the D state (and for some reason the kernel gives no wchan info).
>
> Free reports a large and constantly growing 'buffers' figure (more than
> 50% of the available memory). No userland processes seems to be consuming
> lare amounts of memory (sum of RSS in 'ps aux' is about 30 megs), and the
> overall system is mostly idle.
>

We actually fixed one in 6be2ded1d7c51b39144b9f07d2c839e1bd8707f1.
It is not really a memory leak. But yes it was not releasing some
the prealloc space memory.

-aneesh


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