Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:29:38 +0100
From: Maciej Soltysiak <solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
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To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12
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Hello Pedro,

Thursday, February 17, 2005, 12:28:15 AM, you wrote:

> boot. It came to a point that it started swapping and the swap usage too
> started to grow linearly.
I had the same with swap being eaten especially by perl apps like qmail-scanner

I think this helps:
--- a/mm/vmscan.c       2004-12-24 13:36:18 -08:00
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c       2004-12-24 13:36:18 -08:00
@@ -675,6 +674,7 @@
                 }
                 pgscanned++;
         }
+        zone->pages_scanned += pgscanned;
         zone->nr_active -= pgmoved;
         spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);

This patchlet is at:
http://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?file=%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fv2.6%2Fpatch-2.6.10.bz2;z=4918
This changeset contains other patches, you need only one.

2.6.11 will have it fixed.

Regards,
Maciej Soltysiak


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