Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261726AbVDOFXu (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261718AbVDOFXt (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:49 -0400 Received: from smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.116]:30868 "HELO smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261726AbVDOFXr (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:47 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc2: >100% memory usage From: Nick Piggin To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: michael@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au, lkml In-Reply-To: <20050414222024.059f7aa9.rddunlap@osdl.org> References: <20050415044806.GA12519@wibble> <1113541145.6517.22.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <20050414222024.059f7aa9.rddunlap@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:23:42 +1000 Message-Id: <1113542622.6517.25.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1673 Lines: 42 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/