Re: lot of VM problem with 2.4.23

[Ville Herva]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:35:54AM -0800, you [Mike Fedyk] wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know if there is a kernel memory leak, since all user level
> > processes should be killed at that point, right? Unfortunately I didn't have
> > time to dig deeper, as the box is in (sort of) production.
> 
> Maybe, it depends on your init scripts.  Does your distribution do a kill -9
> of all processes before turning off swap?

(It's a 7.0 Red Hat).

It does 
   runcmd "Sending all processes the KILL signal..."  /sbin/killall5 -9
before
   [ -n "$SWAPS" ] && runcmd "Turning off swap: " swapoff $SWAPS
in /etc/rc6.d/S01reboot and I've seen the "Sending all processes the KILL
signal..." message appear before the memory freeing loop starts rolling.

 
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