On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:36:30 -0700 Mike Morrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I too have the same problem. Has anyone tried updating to 2.6.1 or > 2.4.23 kernels to see if it helps, as mentioned on bugzilla? Anyone > running ext3 without htree leak free? > > > Mike > > > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 20:32, Eric Paynter wrote: > > I also seem to be leaking memory, and it's not going to any > > particular process. The kernel itself seems to be leaking. I think > > it has to do with this bug in the ext3 filesystem driver: > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36855 > > I'm not sure whether I have enough information to answer your question, but here goes. I believe that various versions of 2.4.x plus whatever system programs I used at the time (6-8 months ago) had some sort of a memory leak (or poor management of memory). I would observed that the memory used reported by top (this was on a 512MB machine) would go up at each reporting interval. That being said, I've been running 2.5/2.6 for at least 6 months, and it's rock solid stable. Unless you have something particular that is not well supported yet on 2.6, I'd say move on and don't look back. Even the current alsa release has now been merged to 2.6 (I'm using 2.6.1-mm2, which I can recommend without hesitation). I also used nvidia support on my other machine with no noticeably different problems than on 2.4 On my current 256MB machine (less shared memory for the onboard video), top usually reports something like this picture with xfce4, sylpheed, MozillaFirebird (a dozen tabs open), a couple of terminal windows, and OpenOffice, and the picture doesn't change much with time. There is always some free memory, and swap is used, creeping up to slightly higher than the indicated picture. There is slight hesitation switching from one desktop to another, since memory is slightly over committed. top - 06:32:47 up 21 min, 3 users, load average: 1.75, 1.14, 0.64 Tasks: 79 total, 3 running, 75 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 14.3% us, 3.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 81.7% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 222348k total, 220164k used, 2184k free, 15200k buffers Swap: 1004020k total, 9032k used, 994988k free, 72720k cached HTH, -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
