Hi,
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:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97546
I've also made some graphs available together with some command output that clearly show it is a kernel problem:
http://dag.wieers.com/rmon-breeg-io-3months-800x120.png http://dag.wieers.com/rmon-breeg-kernel-3months-800x120.png http://dag.wieers.com/rmon-breeg-load-3months-800x120.png http://dag.wieers.com/rmon-breeg-paging-3months-800x120.png http://dag.wieers.com/rmon-breeg-swap-3months-800x120.png http://dag.wieers.com/rmon-breeg-mem-3months-800x120.png
The behaviour of the system has been like this since I installed RH9 (kernel 2.4.20-8) and newer kernels (2.4.20-18.9, 2.4.20-19.9 and 2.4.20-20.9) and continues to act like this ;(
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.
Anyone else noticed something like this ? -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]