Re: Memory leak?


Nathan Grennan wrote:

Jeffrey Ross wrote:


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.


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



I saw a similar problem with kernel-2.6.15-1.1824_FC4 on one server. I tracked it back to slab debugging.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177593



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

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