Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> 2.5.44-mm3 just began trashing.  I ran debsums -s in order
> to verify installed packages.  This checksums all
> binaries.  Things got a little sluggish, but it finished.
> 
> Then I started a compile for 2.5.44-mm4, and the machine
> became so hopeless that I stopped the compile.  That
> haven't happened before, I have 256M.
> 
> Looking at a running vmstat I saw lots of swapping,
> almost no free memory (as usual) but _cache_
> was down to 4004 too!

Memory leak.


> dentry_cache      1174824 1174824    140 41958 41958    1 :  248  124 : 1174824 1174923 41958    0    0    0  276 : 1131352  43467      0      0

160 megabytes of dcache.

Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.
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