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

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Date:	Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:42:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Fred Tyler <fredty8@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slow, persistent memory leak in 2.6.20


On Aug 26 2007 12:58, Fred Tyler wrote:
>> So I guess you are not seeing any memory leak at all, but just the regular
>> caching?
>
>Also, how can you explain the differences between the graphs of
>long-term memory usage? This first graph is from a server running
>2.6.16 that never has memory problems:
>
>    http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff117/fredty8/memory-a4.png
>
>And here's a graph of a server running 2.6.12 that has to be rebooted
>every month or two because it runs out of memory:
>
>    http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff117/fredty8/memory-a2.png

Indeed that looks like a leak. But perhaps it would be helpful to not only
match MemFree Buffers and Cached (from /proc/meminfo) but also Slab.

>Now, admittedly, the 2.6.20 server has not been running long enough to
>know whether or not it's going to start starving applications of
>memory, but the graph here looks a whole lot more like 2.6.12 than
>2.6.16, wouldn't you agree:
>
>    http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff117/fredty8/memory-b1.png

But it looks like.

>Those 2.6.12 servers caused me a ton of stress because I let the
>problem go too long before I did anything. In the event that 2.6.20 is
>doing the same thing, I'm trying to fix it before things get out of
>control.
>

	Jan
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