Re: Memory leak/OOM in 2.2.11

Barrett G. Lyon (blyon@netpr.com)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:57:55 -0700

At 02:27 PM 8/14/99 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 12, Ilpo Ruotsalainen <lonewolf@cs.hut.fi> wrote:
>> 2.2.11 seems to be leaking memory somewhere (probably in
>> the networking code)
>[...]
>
>I have just experienced the same problem with 2.2.11-pre7: For the first
>time in ages, I saw a _crashed_ Linux box :-((
>
>After some days of operation (the server is not very busy), all
>processes reported "out of memory" problems and a cold reboot was the
>only option :-(
>
>I see that "Ronald Moesbergen" <ronald.moesbergen@bkvision.nl> reported
>the same kind of problem in his message with subject "PROBLEM: Out of
>memory lock-up with kernel 2.2.11".
>
>Hard'n'soft description:
>
>Uni-processor Pentium II on a ASUS BX motherboard, 128MB of RAM. Symbios
>8751sp (non-OEM) SCSI controller. 3com 905 NIC in 10mbit mode.
>

I am having the same problems on my Alpha systems. After 2 days of uptime
all the swap space is eaten up and the system has an OOM condition. The
machines are under heavy network usage. I have been testing the tcp patch
on another AlphaLinux box and I am not sure it has helped yet or not.

The only driver that I use that Mr. Arvin was using is the SYM8xxx driver
and the usual networking code, but I have seen this leak since 2.2.10 and
it really causes a lot of problems.

-Barrett

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