Re: mdadm memory leak?

[David Kowis <dkowis@shlrm.org>]

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whoops, I was mistaken, and a fool for not checking, but I don't use XFS, it's reiserfs on the 200gb array.
Sorry about the second mail.

David Kowis wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure if this is mdadm's fault, but I cannot find anything else that would cause the problem, since mdadm is the only new
> thing and I'm pretty sure it's not 2.6.11.12's fault. Anyways, on to my issue:
> I'm running samba, apache2, mysql, postgresql, and a few other things. I've got an Athlon-XP 1700+ with 768Mb RAM. Right after startup I've
> got about 600Mb of free memory, and as time progresses, and I use samba for things (playing an MP3,) my amount of free memory declines
> rather rapidly. It hovers around 8Mb of free ram, with no swap usage. The computer has bogged down bad enough that oom-killer has had to
> kill just about everything. ps and top don't show anything eating up all my memory. I'm very impressed with mdadm and I'd like to keep using
> it, but i'd also like to have a bit of free memory on my computer. I'm using an XFS file system on a 200Gb mirrored RAID array, two drives,
> on seperate IDE channels (seperate cables.)
> Thanks for your time,

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