linux-kernel - Re: Slow, persistent memory leak in 2.6.20

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Message-ID: <466ad3f90708260840u2428ad90rac4bc04b5f429bdc@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:40:57 -0400
From:	"Fred Tyler" <fredty8@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slow, persistent memory leak in 2.6.20

On 8/26/07, Fred Tyler <fredty8@...il.com> wrote:
> I think I've come across a memory leak in 2.6.20. I've upgraded to the
> latest 2.6.20.17, but it didn't seem to help.

One more thing, I just found this message from July from someone
seeing a similar problem:

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/305

I am also running reiserfs, so I wonder if that has something to do
with this. Unlike the other poster, though, I am running an unmodified
kernel and have not seen the error he saw in the system logs.

Here's my output from /proc/meminfo in case it helps:

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      4053564 kB
MemFree:        144344 kB
Buffers:        310824 kB
Cached:        2684244 kB
SwapCached:         64 kB
Active:        1858644 kB
Inactive:      1510808 kB
SwapTotal:       65528 kB
SwapFree:        65316 kB
Dirty:            1772 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      363844 kB
Mapped:          46924 kB
Slab:           509276 kB
SReclaimable:   467220 kB
SUnreclaim:      42056 kB
PageTables:       9660 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   2092308 kB
Committed_AS:   854520 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      4936 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359733423 kB
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