Steve Kieu grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> The VM in the kernel 2.4.x has problems this is a
> _hot_ topic in the LKML; so the kernel in MDK8.1
>
> >From my experience I use 2.4.13 and it is quite good
> in terms of VM management. Try it first.
[davidg@rhpsfan2 davidg]$ rpm -q -a|egrep kernel
kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk
kernel-doc-2.4.8-26mdk
kernel-headers-2.4.8-26mdk
kernel-2.4.8-26mdk
[davidg@rhpsfan2 davidg]$
Looks like I'm running 2.4.8 (-26?). So I guess an upgrade is in order.
Thanks for the suggestion. Is that kernel available in the "updates"
directory for 8.1 at the nearest mirror site?
--Dave
> --- David Guntner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running 8.1.
> >
> > After starting my system, I've noted the amount of
> > memory and swap space
> > being used on a "top" display. After a reboot,
> > there's always 0 swap being
> > used. I've noticed that the longer the system runs,
> > the more memory
> > resources show up being used, and the bigger the
> > used swap space gets. I
> > came home from a trip recently to find my Linux box
> > stopped for no apparent
> > reason, and after a reboot, none of the system logs
> > showed any errors at
> > the point where the system stopped. I've pretty
> > much got the same things
> > running all the time. I'm beginning to think that
> > *something* has a nasty
> > memory leak, but I don't have a clue as to what. Is
> > there a way to
> > identify programs that have memory leaks? Something
> > that can track the
> > memory usage of program running in the system or
> > whatever?
> >
> > Any ideas?
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