RE: Memory leak in 2.0.33 ??

Scott Smyth (ssmyth@realminfo.com)
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:59:05 -0500


The patch is in the obsolete location...swap-cache

http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama/20-obsolete.html

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Scott Smyth, Senior Developer
REALM Information Technologies, Inc.
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> -----Original Message----- > From: miquels@cistron.nl [SMTP:miquels@cistron.nl] > Sent: Monday, December 22, 1997 10:55 AM > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.0.33 ?? > > In article <m0xk90d-00021uC@chkw386.ch.pwr.wroc.pl>, > Krzysztof Strasburger <strasbur@chkw386.ch.pwr.wroc.pl> wrote: > >It looks like the swap cache bug. I have posted a fix for it many > times > >to this list and it was even fixed in pre-2.0.31-2, but things look > bad. > >Linus probably decided to keep the bug forever in the kernel. I > suppose, > >it is still present in the 2.1.xx kernels... If you have ram >= swap, > >swap > 0 - be ready for crash! > >You can find the fix (for older kernel, but it should be applicable > to the > >newer too) on Linux Mama (http://www.huwig.de/linux/mama). > > Hmm, I looked but could not find it. Do you have a more exact pointer? > I don't see the problems or symptoms here but I'm always interested > in these kind of things in case I do get similar problems.. > > Mike. > -- > Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage <*> > miquels@cistron.nl | "May you live in interesting times"