On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
On August 8 I added a bugreport for a machine that trashes aprox. every 2 weeks because of the kernel eating memory. You can find it here:
I know at least 2 other persons that have the same problems (on different machines with a similar workload/functionality) so it seems to be a bug in the kernel on a particular use of the VM.
The thing is, RHL8 and 9 have a completely different VM from Severn. Also, many people cannot reproduce this problem at all.
This, together with your graphs, suggests it's more likely to be a memory leak in some driver then a bug in the core VM code.
Do you have anything suspicious in /proc/slabinfo when your system gets close to crashing ?
In the RHL9 and RHL8 kernels, how big is free + active + inactive* together? How much space is unaccounted for ?