Memory leak in 2.4.5??

From: Alexander Puchmayr (alexander.puchmayr@jk.uni-linz.ac.at)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 03:22:15 EST


Hi folks!

When I try to copy large files (let say some iso-image or disk image) over
the network (regardless if nfs, ftp, whatever), the system starts to swap
until it stucks - RESET required.

It is impossible for me to get one large 300MB file to my local harddrive!!

Observations I made:
* No process seems to allocate the memory, buffered/cached memory is very
low. So I assume that the kernel "eats" the memory.

* I tried my tests with a 100 MBit card (3c905) and a 10 MBit card (rtl-8029
based), and it appeared only with the 100MBps card.

The kernel I'm using is a vanilla 2.4.5 with knfsd-patch (from namesys).

Thanks
        Alexander Puchmayr

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E-Mail: alexander.puchmayr@jk.uni-linz.ac.at

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