Re: Memory leak
Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
17 Aug 1998 11:48:36 +0200
In article <35D7D3CA.455C55C8@windoms.sitek.net>,
Victor <vinche@windoms.sitek.net> writes:
> Hi, everybody!
> I have some problem with the memory leak:-(
> After the 10 days my Linux box looses most part of his memory.
> It seem to be the same that happened with RH4.1 kernel 2.0.33
> Now it is RH5.1 kernel 2.0.35.
> Earlier it results in kernel panic with the messages
> Unable to load interpreter
> and approximately within 24hours Linux spontaneously reboots
> The lifetime of RH4.1 was nearly 7 days. In both cases memory leaks
> slowly and constantly. Now with RH5.1 my box works more than 10 days
> but it seems to be the same result soon. Have anybody collided with
> the same problem or can someone help me? Any help would be appreciated.
> By the way tell me what information I must send before my box reboots.
You could press Shift-Roll on the console - if it is a networking or
buffer leak then it should show up there. If it is some other subsystem
then special patches will be needed to track it down.
-Andi
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