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SubjectRe: 2.2.12 Memory Leak?
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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