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SubjectRe: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)


On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Thomas Osterried wrote:

> On the machine which has troubles, the bug occured within about 10 days
> During these days, the amount of dirty pages increased, up to 400MB.
> I have testet kernel 2.6.19, 2.6.20, 2.6.22.1 and 2.6.22.10 (with our config),
> and even linux-2.6.20 from ubuntu-sever. They have all shown that behaviour.

<CUT>

> 10 days ago, i installed kernel 2.6.18.5 on this machine (with backported
> 3ware controller code). I'm quite sure that this kernel will now fixes our
> severe stability problems on this production machine (currently:
> Dirty: 472 kB, nr_dirty 118).
> If so, it's the "lastest" kernel i found usable, after half of a year of pain.

Strange, my tests show that both 2.6.18(.8) and 2.6.19(.7) are OK and the
first wrong kernel is 2.6.20.

BTW: Could someone please look at this problem? I feel little ignored and
in my situation this is a critical regression.

Best regards,

Krzysztof Olędzki
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