Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:17:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Krzysztof Oledzki <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages) |
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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.
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> 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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