RE: Memory leak in network buffers 2.1.125ac3

David B. Rees (dbr@oto.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 01:59:24 -0800 (PST)


On 11-Nov-98 Kurt Garloff wrote:
> I was wondering why my box was getting slower after some days of uptime.

Mine's doing the same thing. Linux 2.1.125. up for almost 19 days now...
My kernel is a basic 2.1.125, Single K6, compiled with egcs-1.1b (-O2). Sees a
decent amount of network traffic, but nothing serious.

-Dave

oto:~> uptime
1:57am up 18 days, 15:26, 5 users, load average: 1.92, 1.88, 1.66

Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: SysRq: Show Memory
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Mem-info:
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Free pages: 4868kB
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: ( Free: 1217 (128 256 384)
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: 63*4kB 363*8kB 57*16kB 11*32kB 1*64kB 3*128kB =
4868kB)
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Swap cache: add 503612/503612, delete
502584/502584, find 0/0
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Free swap: 87224kB
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: 16384 pages of RAM
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: 574 reserved pages
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: 4309 pages shared
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: 1028 pages swap cached
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: 25 pages in page table cache
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Buffer memory: 4044kB
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Buffer heads: 4068
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Buffer blocks: 4044
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: CLEAN: 1426 buffers, 0 used (last=0), 0 locked,
0 protected, 0 dirty
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: LOCKED: 2558 buffers, 64 used (last=2554), 0
locked, 0 protected, 0 dirty
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: DIRTY: 43 buffers, 0 used (last=0), 0 locked, 0
protected, 43 dirty
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Networking buffers in use : 20
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Total network buffer allocations : 83265936
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: Total failed network buffer allocs : 0
Nov 11 01:53:36 oto kernel: IP fragment buffer size : 0

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