Hello Wakko , I haven't seen that symptom here . Do you want to
trade .config's ? Below are my stats for 11 days . JimL
babydr@filesrv1:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 898260 884620 13640 0 39312 730824
-/+ buffers/cache: 114484 783776
Swap: 656532 0 656532
babydr@filesrv1:~$ uptime
4:03pm up 11 days, 50 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
babydr@filesrv1:~$ uname -a
Linux filesrv1 2.4.18-pre3 #1 SMP Sun Jan 13 15:00:08 EST 2002 i686 unknown
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Wakko Warner wrote:
> recent 2.4 kernels seem to love eating away at memory. After 2 weeks of
> uptime, 2.2.19 would normally consume about 120mb of ram and maybe 1mb of
> swap. With 2.4.16 it's more than doubled. Swap usage is 128mb, memory
> useage about 230mb. Nothing is different between what I ran with 2.2 and
> what I run now with 2.4.
>
> Is linux trying to do memory consumtion like windows now?
>
> The other odd thing is, when I go to single user (init 1), I still have
> 100-120mb memory used. Only thing running is the shell init and kernel
> processes. This is after all modules have been unloaded as well (my kernel
> only has what it takes to mount / and nothing more) Where is this memory
> going? I shouldn't have THAT much used with nothing running.
>
> memory: 512mb
> swap: 130mb (2 65mb partitions on scsi)
>
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