2007-12-05 14:10:15

by Krzysztof Oledzki

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Subject: Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)



On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, [email protected] wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182
>
>
> [email protected] changed:
>
> What |Removed |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Component|Other |Other
> KernelVersion|2.6.22-stable/2.6.23-stable |2.6.20-stable/2.6.22-
> | |stable/2.6.23-stable
> Product|IO/Storage |Memory Management
> Regression|0 |1
> Summary|Strange system hangs |Critical memory leak (dirty
> | |pages)
>

After additional hint from Thomas Osterried I can confirm that the problem
I have been dealing with for half of a year comes from continuous dirty
pages increas:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13864&action=view (in 1 KB
units)

So, after two days of uptime I have ~140MB of dirty pages and that
explains why my system crashes every 2-3 weeks.

Best regards,


Krzysztof Ol?dzki