From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 04:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 04:23:08 -0400 Received: from at18.tphys.uni-linz.ac.at ([140.78.103.18]:1540 "EHLO at18.tphys.uni-linz.ac.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 04:22:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Alexander Puchmayr Reply-To: alexander.puchmayr@jk.uni-linz.ac.at Organization: University Linz, Austria To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Memory leak in 2.4.5?? Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:22:15 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061810221500.01280@at18> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi folks! When I try to copy large files (let say some iso-image or disk image) over the network (regardless if nfs, ftp, whatever), the system starts to swap until it stucks - RESET required. It is impossible for me to get one large 300MB file to my local harddrive!! Observations I made: * No process seems to allocate the memory, buffered/cached memory is very low. So I assume that the kernel "eats" the memory. * I tried my tests with a 100 MBit card (3c905) and a 10 MBit card (rtl-8029 based), and it appeared only with the 100MBps card. The kernel I'm using is a vanilla 2.4.5 with knfsd-patch (from namesys). Thanks Alexander Puchmayr -- --- Alexander Puchmayr Institut für Theoretische Physik Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz Johannes-Kepler Universitaet Phone: ++43 732/2468-8633 A-4040 Linz, Austria Fax: ++43 732/2468-8585 E-Mail: alexander.puchmayr@jk.uni-linz.ac.at