2.1.119 memory leak/strangeness

Charlie Ross (rossc@cs.colostate.edu)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00:42 -0600 (MDT)


I'm not exactly how to report this, because I dont quite understand whats
wrong, but here it goes:

I have a machine with 64 meg of ram and a 100 meg swap.
I was very supprised to see in my syslog that inetd, sendmail, crond,
inetd, etc.. all ran out of memory. to I checked top to see how much was
used and why and I see the following:

Mem: 62656K av, 2966844K used, 1290116K free, 4128K shrd, 32028 K buf
Swap: 102380K av, 4212K used.

Okak, If I check my math on this, I have 64M+100M of available "memory" and
somehow out of this 164 meg I am using 2.9 Gig!? with 1.2 Gig left?

The only process that was active was a cdripper, which also died from lack
of memory.

/proc/meminfo says:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 64159744 3038838784 1320288256 5120000 33083392 13979648
Swap: 104837120 4292608 100544512
MemTotal: 62656 kB
MemFree: 1289344 kB
MemShared: 5000 kB
Buffers: 32308 kB
Cached: 13652 kB
SwapTotal: 102380 kB
SwapFree: 98188 kB

I have no proceses running which are using any real heaps of memory...
I have also been having a lot of oops's and kernel null pointers etc in
kernels 2.1.118 and 2.1.119 I'll attach the most recent of these to the
bottom of this message..

I have tried to run them through ksymoops, but for some reason ksymops
segfaults while trying to read the System map, so all I can get is
disassembled code... grr.

-Chuck

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