memory leak
Bill McCormick
wpmccormick at covad.net
Sat Apr 24 13:59:17 UTC 2004
Hello,
I appear to have a memory leak (avg 100k/sec) coming from the kernel or
kernel module. At least when I look at top, sorted by memory, I don't
see any user space processes getting larger.
I think I've ruled out most programs by disabling them from starting up.
Also, I've ruled out most hardware problems by disabling on board
devices (SCSI,NIC,USB,Serial,Parallel) through bios with no effect. One
device I couldn't test was my 3ware drive controller. I think in order
to completely rule out hardware, I need to reinstall on a junk hard
drive(s) and see if the problem persists; I think this is my next step.
uname:
Linux billinux 2.4.20-6smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 27 09:59:40 EST 2003 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
procinfo:
Linux 2.4.20-6smp (bhcompile at porky) (gcc 3.2.2 20030222 ) #1 4CPU [billinux]
Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers
Cached
Mem: 1159560 113204 1046356 0 12612
27552
Swap: 257000 0 257000
Bootup: Sat Apr 24 08:26:29 2004 Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/74 825
user : 0:00:04.21 0.0% page in : 33942 disk 1: 3175r
2637w
nice : 0:00:00.00 0.0% page out: 20829
system: 0:00:11.36 0.1% swap in : 1
idle : 2:04:25.95 99.8% swap out: 0
uptime: 0:31:10.38 context : 34591
irq 0: 187038 timer irq 10: 0 usb-ohci
irq 1: 3 keyboard irq 12: 20
irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 15: 2 ide1
irq 4: 6 serial irq 16: 2951 eth0
irq 6: 3 irq 20: 5803 3ware Storage
Contro
irq 7: 1 irq 29: 40 ioc0
irq 8: 1 rtc
How else might I determine what the source of this problem is?
Thanks,
Bill
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