Re: 2.1.105 MASSIVE memory leak while stress testing

Matthew Hawkins (matt@mail.goldweb.com.au)
Tue, 9 Jun 1998 01:41:05 +1000

At 04:19PM on Mon, Jun 08, 1998, "Michael L. Galbraith" <mikeg@weiden.de> sent:
> I was stress testing 2.1.105 with all of Bill Hawes's recent patches,
> when the machine suddenly became ever more unresponsive.

I had the same thing happen, only for me it was 2.1.104+ac1 plus the
following patches from Bill Hawes:

arch386_ldt104-patch buffer_104-patch mmap_104-patch
nfsd_104-patch swap_vm104-patch

After a while 2/3 of the processes had no resident pages.

My amazing sixth sense tells me the culprit would be the
swap_vm104-patch (but I'm known to be wrong before:)

I was trying to recompile .105 at the time, ended up rebooting and
finishing the compile from a fresh startup as it was taking half
an hour to compile one .c file (somewhere in the net/ hierarchy)

2.1.105+ac is running great though (and I've noticed its still a
tad aggressive in swapping out pages)

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