From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
Cc: Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:11:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050123091154.GC16648@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106360639.15804.1.camel@boxen>
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On Sat, Jan 22 2005, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> fre 2005-01-21 klockan 17:19 +0100 skrev Jan Kasprzak:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been running 2.6.11-rc1 on my dual opteron Fedora Core 3 box for a week
> > now, and I think there is a memory leak somewhere. I am measuring the
> > size of active and inactive pages (from /proc/meminfo), and it seems
> > that the count of sum (active+inactive) pages is decreasing. Please
> > take look at the graphs at
> >
> > http://www.linux.cz/stats/mrtg-rrd/vm_active.html
> >
> > (especially the "monthly" graph) - I've booted 2.6.11-rc1 last Friday,
> > and since then the size of "inactive" pages is decreasing almost
> > constantly, while "active" is not increasing. The active+inactive
> > sum has been steady before, as you can see from both the monthly
> > and yearly graphs.
> >
> > Now I am playing with 2.6.11-rc1-bk snapshots to see what happens.
> > I have been running 2.6.10-rc3 before. More info is available, please ask me.
> > The box runs 3ware 7506-8 controller with SW RAID-0, 1, and 5 volumes,
> > Tigon3 network card. The main load is FTP server, and there is also
> > a HTTP server and Qmail.
>
> Others have seen this as well, the reports indicated that it takes a day
> or two before it becomes noticeable. When it happens next time please
> capture the output of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo.
This is after 2 days of uptime, the box is basically unusable.
--
Jens Axboe
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MemTotal: 1022372 kB
MemFree: 10024 kB
Buffers: 4664 kB
Cached: 121564 kB
SwapCached: 33636 kB
Active: 429544 kB
Inactive: 109512 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 1022372 kB
LowFree: 10024 kB
SwapTotal: 1116476 kB
SwapFree: 729056 kB
Dirty: 180 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 422216 kB
Slab: 42948 kB
CommitLimit: 1627660 kB
Committed_AS: 1134080 kB
PageTables: 7976 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 1152 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359737171 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
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slabinfo - version: 2.1
# name <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <batchcount> <limit> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-23 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-21 16:19 Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? Jan Kasprzak
2005-01-22 2:23 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-01-23 9:11 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-01-23 9:19 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-23 9:56 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-23 10:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-23 20:03 ` Russell King
2005-01-24 11:48 ` Russell King
2005-01-25 19:32 ` Russell King
2005-01-27 8:28 ` Russell King
2005-01-27 8:47 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-27 10:19 ` Alessandro Suardi
2005-01-27 12:17 ` Martin Josefsson
2005-01-27 12:56 ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-27 13:03 ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-27 16:49 ` Russell King
2005-01-27 18:37 ` Phil Oester
2005-01-27 19:25 ` Russell King
2005-01-27 20:40 ` Phil Oester
2005-01-28 9:32 ` Russell King
2005-01-27 20:33 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-28 0:17 ` Russell King
2005-01-28 0:34 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-28 8:58 ` Russell King
2005-01-30 13:23 ` Russell King
2005-01-30 15:34 ` Russell King
2005-01-30 16:57 ` Phil Oester
2005-01-30 17:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-30 17:26 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-30 17:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-30 18:45 ` Russell King
2005-01-31 2:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-31 4:11 ` Herbert Xu
2005-01-31 4:45 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-01-31 5:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-31 5:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-31 5:40 ` Herbert Xu
2005-01-31 5:16 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-01-31 5:42 ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
2005-01-30 18:01 ` Russell King
2005-01-30 18:19 ` Phil Oester
2005-01-28 1:41 ` Phil Oester
2005-01-24 0:56 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-01-24 20:47 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-24 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-24 21:05 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-24 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-25 15:53 ` OT " Paulo Marques
2005-01-26 8:01 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-26 8:11 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-26 8:40 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-26 8:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-26 8:47 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-26 8:52 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-26 9:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-26 8:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-26 9:03 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-26 15:52 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-02 9:29 ` Lennert Van Alboom
2005-02-02 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-02 16:19 ` Lennert Van Alboom
2005-02-02 17:49 ` Dave Hansen
2005-02-02 18:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-02 19:07 ` Dave Hansen
2005-02-02 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-24 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-07 11:00 ` Jan Kasprzak
2005-02-07 11:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-02-07 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-07 15:52 ` Jan Kasprzak
2005-02-07 16:38 ` axboe
2005-02-07 17:35 ` Jan Kasprzak
2005-02-07 21:10 ` Jan Kasprzak
2005-02-08 2:47 ` Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? (also here) Noel Maddy
2005-02-16 4:00 ` -rc3 leaking NOT BIO [Was: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?] Parag Warudkar
2005-02-16 5:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-16 6:07 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-16 23:52 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-17 13:00 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-17 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-18 1:38 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-02-21 4:57 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-16 23:31 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-16 23:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-17 1:19 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-17 3:48 ` Horst von Brand
2005-02-17 13:35 ` Parag Warudkar
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