Re: Slow, persistent memory leak in 2.6.20

From: Fred Tyler
Date: Sun Aug 26 2007 - 11:41:19 EST


On 8/26/07, Fred Tyler <fredty8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think I've come across a memory leak in 2.6.20. I've upgraded to the
> latest 2.6.20.17, but it didn't seem to help.

One more thing, I just found this message from July from someone
seeing a similar problem:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/305

I am also running reiserfs, so I wonder if that has something to do
with this. Unlike the other poster, though, I am running an unmodified
kernel and have not seen the error he saw in the system logs.

Here's my output from /proc/meminfo in case it helps:

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 4053564 kB
MemFree: 144344 kB
Buffers: 310824 kB
Cached: 2684244 kB
SwapCached: 64 kB
Active: 1858644 kB
Inactive: 1510808 kB
SwapTotal: 65528 kB
SwapFree: 65316 kB
Dirty: 1772 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 363844 kB
Mapped: 46924 kB
Slab: 509276 kB
SReclaimable: 467220 kB
SUnreclaim: 42056 kB
PageTables: 9660 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 2092308 kB
Committed_AS: 854520 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 4936 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359733423 kB
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