There seems to be a MAJOR memory leak in linux-2.0.31-pre9. I put it on
my news server, and now it is missing ~33MB after just under 4 days
uptime! The sum of the SIZE column from 'ps max' is 79672, and 'free'
reports:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 128100 126752 1348 11584 480 5308
-/+ buffers: 120964 7136
Swap: 66556 40032 26524
This is a Pentium 166 with 128MB parity RAM (motherboard in ECC mode)
with an Adaptec 2940 (787x chip) for the system/swap drive and a DPT
3224 RAID for the news spool. The ethernet is a 3Com 3c590.
Here are the options that are set in my .config:
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=15
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_VORTEX=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
-- Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.