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SubjectRe: Memory leaks?
I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try upgrading your ld.so to
1.8.5, and libc to 5.4.17.

-Rob

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 bre@mmedia.is wrote:

>
> I have been having trouble with what appears to be a memory leak in my
> system. I don't know where exactly the problem lies, but the following
> daemons seem to eat up memory without giving it back..
>
> ypserv
> rpc.nfsd
> portmap
>
> The nfs daemon swallows memory much much faster than the other two, and it
> seems to use more memory the more the NFS is used, which is very bad since
> I am trying to use the nfsroot capabilities of Linux to boot two other
> machines off this one.
>
> For some reason the daemons all seem to go berzerk at once too, which also
> seems rather strange. It seems only marginally related to general system
> load, one user using tar or find can be enough to set it off, and once it
> has started it doesn't stop until I kill the processes.
>
> My "workaround" is to kill those processes every twenty minutes with (via
> cron), which isn't an optimal solution at all. I am using the following
> libraries and kernel:
>
> Linux kernel 2.0.21
> ld.so.1.7.14
> libc.so.5.3.12
> (basically libraries from redhat 3.0.3 with some 4.0 upgrades)
>
> I did not have this problem using a system based on slackware 2 & 3 and
> Linux 1.2.13.
>
> Any hints are greatly appreciated...
>
> .. also, what happens to NFSroot systems if the root paritition becomes
> temporarily unusable (e.g. when I kill the NFS daemon)? Couldn't this cause
> random OOPSes or other problems?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
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