Re: Memory leak
Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 01:49:22 +0200
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 01:40:55AM +0200, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On 17 Aug 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > Hi, everybody!
> > > I have some problem with the memory leak:-(
> > > After the 10 days my Linux box looses most part of his memory.
> > > It seem to be the same that happened with RH4.1 kernel 2.0.33
> > > Now it is RH5.1 kernel 2.0.35.
> > > Earlier it results in kernel panic with the messages
> > > Unable to load interpreter
> > > and approximately within 24hours Linux spontaneously reboots
> > > The lifetime of RH4.1 was nearly 7 days. In both cases memory leaks
> > > slowly and constantly. Now with RH5.1 my box works more than 10 days
> > > but it seems to be the same result soon. Have anybody collided with
> > > the same problem or can someone help me? Any help would be appreciated.
> > > By the way tell me what information I must send before my box reboots.
> >
> >
> > You could press Shift-Roll on the console - if it is a networking or
> > buffer leak then it should show up there. If it is some other subsystem
> > then special patches will be needed to track it down.
>
> What is "Shift-Roll". Is that on a Mac keyboard?
Sorry, on the US keyboard it is Shift-Scroll-Lock. On my German keyboard it is
labelled "Rollen" and then I somehow though it was "roll" on the US keyboard.
-Andi
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