Bug#286803: Kind of a memory leak in kernel 2.6?

[David Robb <ender@paradise.gen.nz>]

I'm also seeing this, under 2.6.11 and again it's spamd as the major 
culprit. Restarting spamd every few days seems to free up large amounts of 
ram.


tombstone:/# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        514636     497168      17468          0      57520      54128
-/+ buffers/cache:     385520     129116
Swap:       781304     250976     530328

tombstone:/# /etc/init.d/spamassassin stop
Stopping SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: spamd.

tombstone:/# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: spamd.

tombstone:/# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        514636     341100     173536          0      58556      56628
-/+ buffers/cache:     225916     288720
Swap:       781304     173024     608280


I've seen this free up over 300MB of swap.

--David