Is there a way to release the leaked memory without reboot the system?

[Andrew Bacchi]

I haven't seen any replies to this question, so I'll offer my suggestion.

I'm unaware of any way to release memory other than a reboot of the 
system, however I don't have any experience with a clustered system such 
as yours.  I would think that best solution is to improve the program 
that's causing your memory leak.  If it's written in house, you should 
rewrite the code to release memory.  If the program is purchased, then 
call the publisher and get them to improve it.

Most programmers are aware of memory leakage and are writing improved 
code these days.  I hope this helps.

Daneil Goodman wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I have a Dell PoweEdge 1950 cluster running RHEL AS 4. The nodes are
> internally connected using InfiniBand switch to let users to run the
> parallel jobs. The cluster has serious memory leak issue which left a lot of
> RAM and swap space behind after the job finished. I usually reboot the nodes
> to clean up the garbage after I confirmed there is no job running on these
> nodes. But recently I found sometimes other user's job could be killed when
> I reboot the nodes although the killed job is running on other nodes. This
> weird issue bothered me a lot. Therefore, I would like to find a way to
> release the leaked memory and clean up the swap space without rebooting the
> system. Can someone give me a suggestion?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Goodman
>   

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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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