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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:14:03 -0500
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Parag Warudkar wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:28 pm, Pedro Venda wrote:
> 
>>Having upgraded most of them to 2.6.10-ac12, one of them showed a linear
>>growth of used memory over the last 7 days, after the first 2.6.10-ac12
>>boot. It came to a point that it started swapping and the swap usage too
>>started to grow linearly.
> 
> 
> cat /proc/slabinfo please. I am also seeing similar symptoms (although that is 
> with 2.6.11-rc4 there is a possibility of a common bug) here and I seem to 
> have linearly growing size-64 in slabinfo.

There has been discussion in another thread about a leak related to 
network activity. You might find more information there, subject 
contains "NOT BIO" if it helps.

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    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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