Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:59:54 -0800 (PST) | From | Rob Glover <> | Subject | Re: Memory leaks? |
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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, > Bjarni R. Einarsson ____________ > 8) ______________________ +354-551-3533 \ sysadmin \_ *Multimedia > /\ bre@mmedia.is / Margmidlun hf* \ math geek \ Consumer > /\ \ Juggler@IRC / _ Hateigsvegi 3 \ tech. thug \ Services > /\ \ \ Polymorph@IRC / \\ 105 Reykjavik #include <std/disclaimer.h> > >
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