Re: 2.2.11: Complicated memory leak...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:36:01 +0100 (BST)

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> Some combination of VMWare (1.0.3), squid, and KDE (1.1.1),
> seems to accelerate the memory leak. VMWare (re-installed cleanly for
> the new kernel; including a re-compilation of the vmmon and vm-net
> modules) is particularly bad at exacerbating the problem.

Unless you can duplicate the problem without any 3rd party modules ever
being loaded that boot then I can't help. Try without ever loading any
vmware.

> also have Mandrake 6.0 installed (multiboot) on the same box.
> Installation of 2.2.11 onto that distribution seems to work fine
> (i.e. no leaks). I'm stumped (but running Mandrake for the moment :-)

Perchance without vmware ?

Alan

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