Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:09:21 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Problems in 2.2.11? |
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On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Robert A. Hayden wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Mike Eldridge wrote: > > > I had been running 2.2.9 for several weeks with no problem. I had not yet > > compiled quota support into the kernel, so I decided that I would go ahead > > and move to 2.2.11 while I was at it. > > > > The box stays up for about 2 days and then I get a massive memory failure. > > Everything runs out of memory. All services are unavailable, console > > login is impossible, even mingetty stops responding, the machine grinds to > > a halt. Hard reset is the only way out. =( I've had this problem twice > > now with 2.2.11. Up for two days, then runs out of memory, hard reset. > > I had the same problem with Geek.NET (dual PII-400/256mb/RH6.0) and had to > step back down to 2.2.10 to get a stable system (up for 4 days now, no > problems). From what I've seen and heard about this, it seems limited to > SMP machines and maybe be specific to RH6.0-based systems.
This sounds more like the TCP memory leak which is documented on http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2211.html where there is also a patch to fix it.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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