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Subject2.4.19 and kernel memory leak?
Hi,

After 24 hours my system seem to start using much more memory
as that procps reports with ps aux. info about my system :

The machine is a compaq proliant 2500 with 2x PPro 200MHz cpu, and a
smart2/p array controller. The machine runs redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.4.19 :

[hubble:stock]:(~)$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
[hubble:stock]:(~)$ ps -V
procps version 3.1.6
[hubble:stock]:(~)$ uname -a
Linux hubble.stokkie.net 2.4.19 #2 SMP Thu Oct 17 07:19:55 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

After barely running 1 day i get this :

[hubble:stock]:(~)$ w
17:25:07 up 1 day, 4:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
stock pts/0 17:14 0.00s 0.19s 0.07s w
[hubble:stock]:(~)$ memtotal
Total memory:
Total Virtual memory : 89356 kbytes
Total Real memory : 40388 kbytes
[hubble:stock]:(~)$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 257008 251248 5760 0 46156 81772
-/+ buffers/cache: 123320 133688
Swap: 265192 472 264720
[hubble:stock]:(~)$

[hubble:stock]:(~)$ cat bin/memtotal
ps aux | awk -f /home/stock/bin/totalmem.awk
[hubble:stock]:(~)$ cat /home/stock/bin/totalmem.awk
BEGIN { FS = " " }
NR == 1 {
print "Total memory: "
}
{
vmem += $5;
rmem += $6;
}
END {
print "Total Virtual memory : "vmem" kbytes"
print "Total Real memory : "rmem" kbytes"
}

ps aux :

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 1120 476 ? S Mar10 0:06 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [keventd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Mar10 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Mar10 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU1]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:01 [kswapd]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [bdflush]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:01 [kupdated]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:05 [kjournald]
root 99 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [kjournald]
bin 412 0.0 0.1 1212 504 ? S Mar10 0:00 portmap
root 465 0.0 0.2 1168 528 ? S Mar10 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 474 0.0 0.4 1796 1132 ? S Mar10 0:00 klogd
nobody 488 0.0 0.2 1292 644 ? S Mar10 0:00 identd -e -o
nobody 490 0.0 0.2 1292 644 ? S Mar10 0:01 identd -e -o
nobody 491 0.0 0.2 1292 644 ? S Mar10 0:00 identd -e -o
nobody 492 0.0 0.2 1292 644 ? S Mar10 0:00 identd -e -o
nobody 495 0.0 0.2 1292 644 ? S Mar10 0:00 identd -e -o
daemon 506 0.0 0.1 1144 504 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 520 0.0 0.2 1328 628 ? S Mar10 0:00 crond
root 534 0.0 0.1 1144 496 ? S Mar10 0:00 inetd
named 544 0.0 1.0 4240 2728 ? S Mar10 0:02 named -u named
root 557 0.0 0.4 2392 1172 ? S Mar10 0:09 sshd
root 574 0.0 0.5 1364 1360 ? SL Mar10 0:06 xntpd -A
root 589 0.0 0.2 1204 540 ? S Mar10 0:00 lpd
root 608 0.0 0.1 1104 388 ? S Mar10 0:00 rpc.rquotad
root 617 0.0 0.3 1484 832 ? S Mar10 0:00 rpc.mountd --no-nfs-version 3
root 626 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 627 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 628 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 629 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 630 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 631 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 632 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 633 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [nfsd]
root 634 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [lockd]
root 635 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [rpciod]
root 657 0.0 0.2 1156 568 ? S Mar10 0:00 rpc.statd
root 671 0.0 0.2 1312 592 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/sbin/dhcpd
root 700 0.0 0.1 1124 336 ? S Mar10 0:04 svscan
root 701 0.0 0.1 1088 308 ? S Mar10 0:00 supervise qmail-send
root 702 0.0 0.1 1088 308 ? S Mar10 0:00 supervise log
root 703 0.0 0.1 1088 308 ? S Mar10 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
root 704 0.0 0.1 1088 308 ? S Mar10 0:00 supervise log
qmaill 705 0.0 0.1 1104 360 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
qmaild 706 0.0 0.1 1152 476 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 518 -g 517 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmails 707 0.0 0.1 1140 384 ? S Mar10 0:00 qmail-send
qmaill 708 0.0 0.1 1100 304 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
root 711 0.0 0.1 1100 332 ? S Mar10 0:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward .forward?|preline procmail
qmailr 712 0.0 0.1 1100 344 ? S Mar10 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 713 0.0 0.1 1092 344 ? S Mar10 0:00 qmail-clean
root 730 0.0 0.1 1144 408 ? S Mar10 0:00 gpm -t ps/2
xfs 771 0.0 0.5 2228 1296 ? S Mar10 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon -port -1
root 785 0.0 0.2 2992 744 ? S Mar10 0:00 smbd -D
root 794 0.0 0.3 2168 940 ? S Mar10 0:05 nmbd -D
root 795 0.0 0.2 2100 536 ? S Mar10 0:00 nmbd -D
root 839 0.0 0.3 1588 804 ? S Mar10 0:02 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/pts/1 38400 file /etc/ppp/options.adsl
root 841 0.2 0.1 1156 480 ? S Mar10 3:54 /usr/sbin/pptp pptp: GRE-to-PPP gateway on (null)
root 844 0.0 0.2 1156 516 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/sbin/pptp pptp: call manager for 10.0.0.138
root 1026 0.0 0.1 1092 384 tty1 S Mar10 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
root 1027 0.0 0.1 1092 384 tty2 S Mar10 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root 1028 0.0 0.1 1092 384 tty3 S Mar10 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 1029 0.0 0.1 1092 384 tty4 S Mar10 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 1030 0.0 0.1 1092 384 tty5 S Mar10 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 1033 0.0 0.1 1092 384 tty6 S Mar10 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root 1035 0.0 0.2 1148 532 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/sbin/pptpd -f
root 6730 0.0 0.7 3300 1900 ? S 17:14 0:00 sshd
stock 6731 0.0 0.3 1740 996 pts/0 S 17:14 0:00 -bash
root 6874 0.4 0.7 3300 1900 ? S 17:31 0:01 sshd
stock 6875 0.0 0.3 1732 984 pts/2 S 17:31 0:00 -bash
stock 6897 0.3 1.1 6708 2892 pts/2 S 17:31 0:01 pine
stock 6899 0.0 0.3 1800 956 pts/2 S 17:32 0:00 vi /tmp/pico.006897
stock 6911 0.0 0.3 1652 772 pts/2 S 17:37 0:00 /bin/bash -c (ps aux) < /tmp/viC1Tla4 >/tmp/voglxWbY 2>&1
stock 6912 0.0 0.2 2316 712 pts/2 R 17:37 0:00 ps aux

1. So why does /bin/ps report 0 kbytes for kernel processes ?
2. And why does /usr/bin/free (also a procps item) seems to report much
more memory usage?
3. Do we have a kernel memory leak inside 2.4.19 ?

regards,

Robert
--
Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX Consultant
crashrecovery.org stock@stokkie.net

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