Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)

From: Krzysztof Oledzki
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 09:10:22 EST




On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, bugme-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182


olel@xxxxxx changed:

What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Component|Other |Other
KernelVersion|2.6.22-stable/2.6.23-stable |2.6.20-stable/2.6.22-
| |stable/2.6.23-stable
Product|IO/Storage |Memory Management
Regression|0 |1
Summary|Strange system hangs |Critical memory leak (dirty
| |pages)


After additional hint from Thomas Osterried I can confirm that the problem I have been dealing with for half of a year comes from continuous dirty pages increas:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13864&action=view (in 1 KB units)

So, after two days of uptime I have ~140MB of dirty pages and that explains why my system crashes every 2-3 weeks.

Best regards,


Krzysztof Olędzki