On Sunday 26 February 2006 19:29, Russell Coker wrote:
> Steve Grubb later said he's found some sort of leak, and it
will be
> fixed. I am now running stock 1977 kernel, will wait and see if it leaks.
I'm now running that version too. I guess I'll have an idea of how good it
is in about 9 days time.
Depending on your system you might not make it 9 days. The best way to avoid
the memory leak is to disable audit (auditctl -e 0)...especially if its a
remote computer. oom killer might zap sshd.
Of course there is the possibility that the memory leak was triggered
by
some sort of DOS attack in which case the attacker might just target someone
else's machine and mine might stay working even with a buggy kernel. :(
No, it was 2 mallocs not being freed on some syscalls. lspp.10 kernel is
building right now and I'll update the yum repo tomorrow am. I might put the
kernel at
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/lspp in a few minutes where
it can be retrieved and installed manually.
-Steve