Re: Kernel 2.0.31pre9 memory leak (or where did all the memory go?)

Gnome (huny@ugcs.caltech.edu)
23 Sep 1997 19:55:53 GMT

Another confirmation of the memory leak. Both p-10 and pre9 show this
problem. Hardware:

386DX-40
4M RAM, 16M Swap
1 40M IDE drive
1 ethernet card
2 NE-2k's

There are no processes on that machine which should be using memory.
(it runs init, 1 getty, inetd, 1 telnetd, 2 shells, and pppd)
THe only thing it does is ip_masq and routing. Yet, after 12 hours;
shift-scroll lock shows 0 pages available and it is stuck in a loop
of Can't get free pages. The same configuration (same processes, etc),
works fine in 2.0.30.

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