Hi, I am testing a new installation of 2.0.31 on the latetest stable Debian. Two things to notice up to now.
I left a torture test run on disks (three Bonnie processes running in parallel). All was okay, apparently. While doing so, I tried to run mirror on the Debian ftp site, and mirror grew in memory up to 100 MB or so (exhausting all virtual memory). At that point, every program I tried to execute (ls or ps, for example) dumped core. That's not nice behaviour. What's worst, memory remained in use after having managed to kill mirror. With an idle system, memory occupancy reported by free was 50 MB higher than just after reboot. Is 2.0.31 known to suffer from memory leaks and bad behaviour when exhausting virtual memory? That would be very bad for a Unix kernel. What is the latest really stable kernel? 2.0.27? Another thing is that swapon does not let me add more than 8 swap partitions. I read in the FAQ that up to 16 were allowed, but that number is not reported in the swapon(8) nor in the swapon(2) manpages. Moreover, swapon -s will fail, telling that no /proc/swaps is present. That's true, but shouldn't have it been created by the Debian installation? How can I create it? Thanks to everyone. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
