Re: Problems in 2.2.11?
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:09:21 +0200
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Mike Eldridge wrote:
>
> > I had been running 2.2.9 for several weeks with no problem. I had not yet
> > compiled quota support into the kernel, so I decided that I would go ahead
> > and move to 2.2.11 while I was at it.
> >
> > The box stays up for about 2 days and then I get a massive memory failure.
> > Everything runs out of memory. All services are unavailable, console
> > login is impossible, even mingetty stops responding, the machine grinds to
> > a halt. Hard reset is the only way out. =( I've had this problem twice
> > now with 2.2.11. Up for two days, then runs out of memory, hard reset.
>
> I had the same problem with Geek.NET (dual PII-400/256mb/RH6.0) and had to
> step back down to 2.2.10 to get a stable system (up for 4 days now, no
> problems). From what I've seen and heard about this, it seems limited to
> SMP machines and maybe be specific to RH6.0-based systems.
This sounds more like the TCP memory leak which is documented on
http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2211.html where there is also
a patch to fix it.
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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