Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:50:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:50:23 -0500 Received: from www.wen-online.de ([212.223.88.39]:28172 "EHLO wen-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:50:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:49:55 +0100 (CET) From: Mike Galbraith X-X-Sender: To: Chris Chabot cc: Subject: Re: Severe Linux 2.4 kernel memory leakage In-Reply-To: <1006699767.1178.0.camel@gandalf.chabotc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 25 Nov 2001, Chris Chabot wrote: > Hi, I have a firewall / file server box which is displaying (severe) > memory leakage, presumably by the kernel. > > The box has ran Redhat 7.1 and 7.2, with plain vanilla linux kernels > 2.4.9 upto 2.4.15, in all situations the same problem appeared. With 2.4.9 as well? I have an IKD patch for 2.4.7 which I could update to 2.4.9 fairly quickly if you'd like to try memleak on the thing. It might even go in fairly cleanly as is. -Mike - 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/