Re: Rising io_load results Re: 2.5.63-mm1

Andrew Morton
2003-02-28T08:05:41Z

Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi Con, are you sure this is not the same for 2.5.63?
> I left 2.5.63 running over night (doing nothing but run
> KDE), and in the morning it was swapping heavily.
> About 200MB was swapped out and this did not reduce
> with usage. According to top, 10% of memory was being
> used by a Konsole with nothing in it (could be a memory
> leak in Konsole). After half an hour I gave up - it was
> too unusable. Maybe -mm1 just accentuates a problem
> that is already there in 2.5.63.
>

Please take a snapshot of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo
if anything like this happens.