On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:34, Dag Wieers wrote: > > This is a kernel bug -- applications should never hang the machine. > > Switch to stock 2.4.24 and see if the problem can still be reproduced. > > If it can, let us know. If that works, see if the 2.4.24 preemption > > patch works. > > There has been a kernel memory leak in the 2.4.18/2.4.20 RH kernels. > Depending on the use your machine could run out of memory in a couple of > hours up to weeks. I've seen it happen on boxes that have high IO-load and > CPU-usage, mainly with rrdtool and mrtg. You can find more information > here:
I will try to run a non-custom kernel today. I find it strange that it takes distcc 2.12.1 to cause this "bug" to occur while 2.5 did the same job. I would not call it a kernel memory leak yet since the site posted by Dag was leaning towards a kernel memory leak being the cause but was not conclusive. I need an actual proof first in order to have a simple test case which I can then send to the colleagues which developed this custom kernel patch. Stephen -- Stephen Torri GPG Key: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~storri/storri.asc
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