linux hogging memory

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 18:12, 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...

obviously you're cursed 8-)

Those caches should be reclaimed when an application wants
memory. I'm somewhat puzzled as to why this isn't happening.
It probably warrants further investigation upstream at some point.

For FC1 it's unlikely to get fixed given the time left before
it gets EOL'd, unless someone has a revelation sometime soon.

	Dave