Re: [PATCH] preempt-kernel on 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 bugfix

Mike Fedyk
2002-03-08T02:27:21Z

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:38:35AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm running kde, mutt, mozilla, make -j5 kernel compile on a loop for the
> > last coupld days. I wasn't using this much address space with the same work
> > load yesterday, so that's why I think there is a bug there.
>
> Could be - or an app decided to spring a leak. You might want to see if
> a lot of it vanishes when you kill specific things
>

True.

Won't this show up in rss or some other ps mem listing -or- is this
something that hasn't been exported to user space before on linux?