Memory Leak in 2.2.1?

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:27:15 -0500


Usually within 15 days of being up, this machine never hits 100mb used.
Since going to 2.2.1, I have noticed a TON of memory being used. I'm also
using 2.2.1 at work on a machine with 128mb of ram. I shut down all
programs (went to single user mode), shut down all modules and all file
systems except for /usr, and turned off swap. Ran free and it had about 85mb
of ram used. PS showed only 5 processes running. init, kswapd, kflushd, my
shell and ps. Last time I checked, these procs don't use that much memory.

[wakko@ani:/tmp] uptime
7:23am up 15 days, 14:15h, 10 users, load average: 1.04, 1.16, 1.17
[wakko@ani:/tmp] free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 160832 157828 3004 43572 14820 36832
-/+ buffers/cache: 106176 54656
Swap: 64492 54684 9808
[wakko@ani:/tmp]

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