On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 22:20 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:59:05 +1000 Nick Piggin wrote: > > | On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:48 +0800, Michael Deegan wrote: > | > Hi folks, > | > > | > I noticed something unusual on my home desktop machine (K6II, 448M RAM, > runs > | > KDE, samba, nfsd. 2.6.12-rc2 on Debian sarge). The machine seems to feel > | > slightly sluggish; it seems to swap a fair bit more than it did under > | > 2.6.11, but at the same time it's not actually using more swap that it > used > | > to. The large numbers are slowly growing larger too. The biggest spamd was > | > only 156% of memory yesterday. Normally it's only my xserver (and > | > occasionally konqueror) that manages to grab more than 10% of memory... > | > | FWIW, me too :P > | > | I think there is a memory leak in recent 2.6.12 kernels. > | At least on my desktop there is (although it has some of > | my own patches and I've been too lazy to do more work on > | it so I haven't reported it). > | > | It seems to be leaking `size-4096` slabs somewhere. > > This one or yet another one? > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111264601928365&w=2 > >
No, another one. Much faster. A few kernel compiles and I have to reboot (only 256MB RAM, though). But as I said, not quite a vanilla kernel. I'll have to get motivated and compile a plain one and try to work it out. I was hoping someone else would do it ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
