Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:48:06 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Mead <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.12 Memory Leak? |
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Robert Dinse spewed into the bitstream:
> > I ended up going back to 2.2.10, 2.2.12 seems to have a memory leak > similiar to the TCP memory leak in 2.2.11 that existed without the TCP memory > leak patch. > > With Dave Miller's patch to the Sparc assembly applied, with or without > Andrea's schedualer patch, what I see is a huge amount of memory get allocated > to buffers (on the order of 155mb), and then as cache grows, things go into > swap, and then eventually the machine runs out of swap and dies. > > The behavior is sporadic, sometimes the machines will go hours and then > boom it happens in a few minutes. I don't know what triggers it but this is > very similiar to what I saw with 2.2.11. > > I wouldn't kill, but perhaps maim a few individuals for a good stable > linux kernel on Sparc SMP...
I have a fresh 2.2.12 kernel sitting here waiting to go. I'm on an Intel machine... is this bug evident with that architecture?
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