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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:34:25 -0400
From: Robert Derr <rderr@weatherflow.com>
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Subject: 2.6.13.3 Memory leak, names_cache
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Hello,

I'm having a problem with a memory leak in the kernel.  I'm running 
2.6.13.3 from kernel.org on FC4 on a Dell  Poweredge 2850 Duel Xeon 3ghz 
with 2GB RAM.  Soon after booting up names_cache starts growing until it 
consumes all available memory on the system until the oom killer goes 
nuts and starts killing all the processes on the machine.  After 
googling the problem I thought it could be caused by a corrupt file 
system but after running fsck the problem hasn't gone away.  Here's the 
entry from /proc/slabinfo:

names_cache       204686 204686   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    
8 : slabdata 204686 204686     12

Anyone have an idea what could cause this problem or point me in the 
correct direction?

Thanks,
Robert J Derr
Weatherflow, Inc.


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