Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:19:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:19:12 -0500 Received: from ns1.baby-dragons.com ([199.33.245.254]:39828 "EHLO filesrv1.baby-dragons.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:18:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:17:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" To: Wakko Warner cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.16 In-Reply-To: <20020124123558.A19899@animx.eu.org> 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 Hello Wakko , I haven't seen that symptom here . Do you want to trade .config's ? Below are my stats for 11 days . JimL babydr@filesrv1:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 898260 884620 13640 0 39312 730824 -/+ buffers/cache: 114484 783776 Swap: 656532 0 656532 babydr@filesrv1:~$ uptime 4:03pm up 11 days, 50 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 babydr@filesrv1:~$ uname -a Linux filesrv1 2.4.18-pre3 #1 SMP Sun Jan 13 15:00:08 EST 2002 i686 unknown On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Wakko Warner wrote: > recent 2.4 kernels seem to love eating away at memory. After 2 weeks of > uptime, 2.2.19 would normally consume about 120mb of ram and maybe 1mb of > swap. With 2.4.16 it's more than doubled. Swap usage is 128mb, memory > useage about 230mb. Nothing is different between what I ran with 2.2 and > what I run now with 2.4. > > Is linux trying to do memory consumtion like windows now? > > The other odd thing is, when I go to single user (init 1), I still have > 100-120mb memory used. Only thing running is the shell init and kernel > processes. This is after all modules have been unloaded as well (my kernel > only has what it takes to mount / and nothing more) Where is this memory > going? I shouldn't have THAT much used with nothing running. > > memory: 512mb > swap: 130mb (2 65mb partitions on scsi) > > -- > Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals > - > 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/ > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - 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/