I have been seeing what appears to be a kernel memory leak with the
2.3.99-preX kernels. Twice I have come home to a dead console and this
in the syslog:
Apr 14 18:19:59 citadel kernel: VM: killing process X
I can't think of a worse process to kill. The machine had been sitting
idle all day. I also have seen a few times where on a fresh boot after
starting X and a few apps I am already several megs into swap. Normally
under these conditions I have over 100 MB free + cached. If I shut down
to single user mode, there is still a significant amount of memory used
so it's not likely to be a user space issue.
On a possibly related note, I have been seeing gcc seg fault on kernel
compiles lately. I tested my memory thoroughly with memtest86 and it
checked out fine. The system was recently upgraded to RedHat 6.2 so it
could possibly be a bad compiler.
Any ideas on how I can track down what is happening here?
System stats:
Stock RedHat 6.2
Kernel 2.3.99-pre6-2
K6-2 450
FIC PA2013 motherboard (VIA MVP3)
192 MB ram
160 MB swap
Adaptec 2910 SCSI
Voodoo 3
--Brian Gerst
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