On Aug 26 2007 12:58, Fred Tyler wrote: >> So I guess you are not seeing any memory leak at all, but just the regular >> caching? > >Also, how can you explain the differences between the graphs of >long-term memory usage? This first graph is from a server running >2.6.16 that never has memory problems: > > http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff117/fredty8/memory-a4.png > >And here's a graph of a server running 2.6.12 that has to be rebooted >every month or two because it runs out of memory: > > http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff117/fredty8/memory-a2.png
Indeed that looks like a leak. But perhaps it would be helpful to not only match MemFree Buffers and Cached (from /proc/meminfo) but also Slab. >Now, admittedly, the 2.6.20 server has not been running long enough to >know whether or not it's going to start starving applications of >memory, but the graph here looks a whole lot more like 2.6.12 than >2.6.16, wouldn't you agree: > > http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff117/fredty8/memory-b1.png But it looks like. >Those 2.6.12 servers caused me a ton of stress because I let the >problem go too long before I did anything. In the event that 2.6.20 is >doing the same thing, I'm trying to fix it before things get out of >control. > Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/