Re: lenny kernel memory leak?
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:05:08AM +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Since then I have switched system shell from bash to dash, shut down a few
> non-essential services and mounted all fs with noatime. These have helped a
> bit but I still see slab growing about 1 mb in day.
>
> $ uptime
> 08:01:02 up 2 days, 17:35, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.06
> $ grep Slab /proc/meminfo
> Slab: 6448 kB
# uptime
10:42:01 up 5 days, 20:16, 5 users, load average: 2.09, 1.45, 1.17
# grep Slab /proc/meminfo
Slab: 16600 kB
So I'll start testing a few patches to lenny kernel. I guess these two are
good candidates:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7087a828f8714e464fff18d93618727530dfd89;hp=5adf6d63c1697ce1835daf2b5393488a71ee0dca
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f3e63a55b1a7b695a79bf3eec2ff5ab6b336037;hp=9381be059bf5831d259e8735005cfa35b7488543
-Mikko
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