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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:39:17 -0700
From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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To: Mehmet Ali Suzen <msuzen@mail.north-cyprus.net>,
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Subject: Re: Running SMP 2.4.21 #2 SMP Kernel on single processor : Memory
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Mehmet Ali Suzen wrote:
>>> I am running RedHat Linux 9 Linux 2.4.21 SMP  ...
>>
>>Then you should contact a Red Hat Linux forum for support.
> 
> it was a compiled kernel.

Ah, if you were running a kernel.org kernel, apologies.

> I am running RedHat Linux 9 Linux 2.4.21 SMP and 
> memory usage is increasing regularly even if 
> no heavy service like (radiusd,mysqld, httpd, named) is not
> running. After some time I get Out of Memory 
> messages and system hungs!
> 
> It sounds stupid but we are running single cpu.
> Would it be possible to have a memory leakage due to SMP 
> operations? Board is Intel Server Board SE7501BR2

I haven't seen the problem you describe, so I'm shooting in
the dark, but:

How long does the problem take to occur after boot?
What kind of load are you putting on the system?
Have you checked the output of ps and /proc/slabinfo to
look for obvious bloats?

- Dan
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