linux hogging memory

[Ben Steeves]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:12, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:21, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 16:41, Dhananjay Makwana wrote:
> > > We have a FC1 system running kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
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> > Stop right there! There have been numerous errata kernels
> > since the original 2115 kernel, fixing several security
> > problems, and additionally, numerous VM fixes.
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> Fair point, but I am seeing this behaviour on FC1, all the dev versions and 
> now FC2 with a dev kernel:
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100666
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> ... and the bug index ends in 666...

But it's not *bad* behaviour.  It's *optimal* (or at least optimizing)
behaviour.

Ben
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