Memory leak?

[Jeffrey Ross]

Nathan Grennan wrote:

>Jeffrey Ross wrote:
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>>> I believe I have a memory leak someplace on the system,  over several 
>>> days I watch the used memory slowly climb and eventually the system 
>>> starts swapping, the application load has not changed.  I have tried 
>>> stopping processes and restarting them in the hopes that the memory 
>>> would be returned to the system but no such luck.
>>>
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>>> Kernel 2.4.16-1
>>> How can I track down the source of the memory leak?
>>>
>>> according to "top" spamd (spamassassin) is the largest consumer of 
>>> memory, however it seems to stay pretty stable compaired to how fast 
>>> memory usage is climbing
>>>
>>> TIA, Jeff
>>>
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>  I saw a similar problem with kernel-2.6.15-1.1824_FC4 on one server. I 
>tracked it back to slab debugging.
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>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177593
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First, my mistake, the kernel is 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 not 2.4.16-1

is slab debugging turned on in this kernel?  and if so how do I disable 
it without rebuilding the kernel?  can I write something to /proc/???

Part of my problem is this is a memory challenged system and due to 
hardware constraints I can't up the memory without changing the 
motherboard.  The only saving grace is I am not running a gui interface 
on the machine.

thanks

Jeff