Messages in this thread | | | From | mharris@ican ... | Date | Sun, 21 Dec 1997 05:36:08 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Memory leak in 2.0.33?? |
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*PLEASE* tell me I'm a luser and that 2.0.33 does NOT have a memory leak as I heavily suspect.
I've been using 2.0.30 since it came out, have tried all 2.0.x kernels and prereleases after 2.0.30 as well, but within a day or two of each release I fell back to 2.0.30 for some problem or another.
I figured that 2.0.33 would FINALLY be the final release in this series, however it seems to have a memory leak.
The only change in my system has been the kernel - going from .30 to .31. I've got Netscape 4.03 running, and PINE, as well as 3 other console sessions, and my PPP link. I've got 32M of RAM on an AMD-K5-133, and normally my system NEVER swaps. Since my initial boot today, all I've ran is one pine session, and Netscape, and a few bash sessions, midnight commander. Thats it. On a 32meg system, I normally have tonnes and oodles of free memory, or else a lot of cached data. I never swap unless I do compiling while using netscape while playing Quake while......
Right now, I have 16M of swap used up, and it keeps getting worse. It seems when I look at a new web page, the hard disk starts going wild.
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 31760384 29810688 1949696 13037568 843776 7430144 Swap: 34058240 15798272 18259968 MemTotal: 31016 kB MemFree: 1904 kB MemShared: 12732 kB Buffers: 824 kB Cached: 7256 kB SwapTotal: 33260 kB SwapFree: 17832 kB
ps -av
PID TTY STAT TIME PAGEIN TSIZ DSIZ RSS LIM %MEM COMMAND 2 ? SW 0:00 0 1651 4192652 0 xx 0.0 (kflushd) 3 ? SW< 0:00 4671 1651 4192652 0 xx 0.0 (kswapd) 132 14 SW 0:00 181 9 758 0 xx 0.0 (agetty) 133 15 SW 0:00 181 9 758 0 xx 0.0 (agetty) 134 16 SW 0:00 181 9 758 0 xx 0.0 (agetty) 137 ? SWN 0:00 62 7 752 0 xx 0.0 (time) 10056 ? Z 0:00 166 1651 4192652 0 xx 0.0 (cj.pl <zombie>) 11054 ? Z 0:00 165 1651 4192652 0 xx 0.0 (request-route <zombie>) 7400 ? Z 0:00 37 1651 4192652 0 xx 0.0 (cj.pl <zombie>) 7401 ? Z 0:00 22 1651 4192652 0 xx 0.0 (cj.pl <zombie>) 7398 ? Z 0:00 17 1651 4192652 0 xx 0.0 (cj.pl <zombie>) 129 5 S 0:00 181 9 758 4 xx 0.0 (agetty) 10717 6 S 0:14 1182 1326 3521 2948 xx 9.5 pine -d0 4608 ? S 7:34 2667 1268 9243 5464 xx 17.6 X :0 4772 13 R 12:31 13041 7270 19953 12212 xx 39.3 /usr/local/netscape-4.04/
This is a cropped table. I just left the processes with the largest numbers.
I'm not sure what other information might aide in determining what the problem is, but when I use 2.0.30, the problem is non-existant.
cj.pl is zombifying quite a bit, whereas it normally does not.
Mike A. Harris | Homepage: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | System/Network Administrator - John Howard Society, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. WINDOWS: Will Install Needles Data On Whole System
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