On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:57:33AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never > seems > to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out, > the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion > of rebooting a system to fix a problem is giving me Windows flashbacks...) > > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other > workarounds?
Have you tried to determine if it's actually a memory leak in the kernel or some program you have running? Check top and see if there are any ridiculously large processes. If not, it must be a kernel memory leak -- very bad. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
