From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Mehmet Ali Suzen <msuzen@mail.north-cyprus.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Running SMP 2.4.21 #2 SMP Kernel on single processor : Memory Leakage?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:39:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4798B5.7040109@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030823152455.A1771@mail.north-cyprus.net>
Mehmet Ali Suzen wrote:
>>> I am running RedHat Linux 9 Linux 2.4.21 SMP ...
>>
>>Then you should contact a Red Hat Linux forum for support.
>
> it was a compiled kernel.
Ah, if you were running a kernel.org kernel, apologies.
> I am running RedHat Linux 9 Linux 2.4.21 SMP and
> memory usage is increasing regularly even if
> no heavy service like (radiusd,mysqld, httpd, named) is not
> running. After some time I get Out of Memory
> messages and system hungs!
>
> It sounds stupid but we are running single cpu.
> Would it be possible to have a memory leakage due to SMP
> operations? Board is Intel Server Board SE7501BR2
I haven't seen the problem you describe, so I'm shooting in
the dark, but:
How long does the problem take to occur after boot?
What kind of load are you putting on the system?
Have you checked the output of ps and /proc/slabinfo to
look for obvious bloats?
- Dan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-23 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-22 17:21 Running SMP 2.4.21 #2 SMP Kernel on single processor : Memory Leakage? Dan Kegel
2003-08-23 12:26 ` Mehmet Ali Suzen
[not found] ` <20030823152455.A1771@mail.north-cyprus.net>
2003-08-23 16:39 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2003-08-23 16:47 ` Mehmet Ali Suzen
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2003-08-22 11:42 2.4.22-rc2 PCMCIA problems Christopher Curtis
2003-08-22 14:42 ` Running SMP 2.4.21 #2 SMP Kernel on single processor : Memory Leakage? Mehmet Ali Suzen
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