Re: 2.1.119 memory leak/strangeness

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:18:49 +0100


Hi,

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00:42 -0600 (MDT), Charlie Ross
<rossc@cs.colostate.edu> said:

> I'm not exactly how to report this, because I dont quite understand whats
> wrong, but here it goes:

> Mem: 62656K av, 2966844K used, 1290116K free, 4128K shrd, 32028 K buf
^^^^^^^^

OK, severe corruption of the kernel free list accounting...

> I have no proceses running which are using any real heaps of memory...
> I have also been having a lot of oops's and kernel null pointers etc in
> kernels 2.1.118 and 2.1.119 I'll attach the most recent of these to the
> bottom of this message..

Try 2.0. This sounds very much like a hardware fault, either an
overheating CPU or bad memory.

--Stephen

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