There's a nasty memory leak in 2.3.{17,18}, _possibly_ caused by changes
to scsi_malloc in the 2.3.17 patch.
When idle I lost perhaps one (4k) page every 20 seconds. Holding down
Alt-SysRq-M made it leak faster as info was being written to syslog and
thus flushed to disk. Heavy disk IO made it leak significantly faster.
Running 2.3.16 and using the SysRq-M trick, I see the 4k pages being
allocated in the same manner, but the memory is freed about every 128k.
System: 2.3.17 SMP with Adaptec aic7895 using both channels.
More information available, just let me know what you need.
G
Tim Strobell aka Griffy - griffy@math.umd.edu - 301 405 8175
Assistant Systems Administrator, Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland at College Park
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human
history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-Mitch Radcliffe
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