I don't see anything here that sounds like a kernel problem. Its just KDE being the memory pig that it has always been. If there truly was a kernel memory leak, then killing any of those apps would have no positive effect on memory usage.
--- Shawn Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:36:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I run stock 2.4.17 and have seen no problems. Moreover, I would > suspect > >non-kernel applications before the kernel. Please define "strange > memory > >use growth." > > Well, > > As an example, I have one system that is used simple as a workstation, > other than it is running the RC5 client, it just > sits with KDM up. It gets logged into by various users. Some email > is read and the web is used on it, Kongy and > Opera TP3 are the apps. It was running for about 2 weeks with out a > reboot at the time. It was acting rather sluggish > so I ran free. I had 160M of a 200M swap file in use and only 4M out > of 128 available. Shutting down opera and > kmail clear alot but there was still 20M of swap in use. A friend has > a system that is a guinea pig and had been > sitting for a few weeks without the afore mentioned type use. It also > has the appearance of swap growth and > memory usage. It does have the pre-emptive patch as well. > > So I was fishing for data on stock 2.4.17 usage. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
