Kernel eating memory, ends up trashing

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 07:09, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > 	MemTotal:        61676 kB
> > 	MemFree:          1024 kB
> > 	Active:          20688 kB
> > 	Inact_dirty:         0 kB
> > 	Inact_laundry:    7036 kB
> > 	Inact_clean:       580 kB
> 
> OK, that's 1 + 20.5 + 7 + .5 = 29 MB pageable memory.
> 
> In other words, 30+ MB is already taken by the kernel!
> 
> Definately looks like a memory leak.

Would it be normal on a machine with 512MB memory to have a kernel using
this much memory?  Mine's ~33MB:

MemTotal:       513284 kB
MemFree:         36460 kB
...
Active:         362564 kB
...
Inact_dirty:      3080 kB
Inact_laundry:   65652 kB
Inact_clean:     10916 kB
...

This is 

$ uptime
 19:16:56  up 2 days,  1:43,  4 users,  load average: 0.20, 0.12, 0.05
$ uname -a
Linux denk.nakedape.priv 2.4.20-19.9 #1 Tue Jul 15 17:18:13 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Wil
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