2.4.16

2.4.16

[Wakko Warner]

recent 2.4 kernels seem to love eating away at memory.  After 2 weeks of
uptime, 2.2.19 would normally consume about 120mb of ram and maybe 1mb of
swap.  With 2.4.16 it's more than doubled.  Swap usage is 128mb, memory
useage about 230mb.  Nothing is different between what I ran with 2.2 and
what I run now with 2.4.

Is linux trying to do memory consumtion like windows now?

The other odd thing is, when I go to single user (init 1), I still have
100-120mb memory used.  Only thing running is the shell init and kernel
processes.  This is after all modules have been unloaded as well (my kernel
only has what it takes to mount / and nothing more)  Where is this memory
going?  I shouldn't have THAT much used with nothing running.

memory: 512mb
swap:   130mb (2 65mb partitions on scsi)

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Re: 2.4.16

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Wakko Warner wrote:

> recent 2.4 kernels seem to love eating away at memory.  After 2 weeks of
> uptime, 2.2.19 would normally consume about 120mb of ram and maybe 1mb of
> swap.  With 2.4.16 it's more than doubled.  Swap usage is 128mb, memory
> useage about 230mb.  Nothing is different between what I ran with 2.2 and
> what I run now with 2.4.

There are known issues with memory management in the main 2.4
kernel.

If you have the time, could you please try my -rmap VM or
andrea's -aa kernel ?

(available from http://surriel.com/patches/ and kernel.org
respectively)

kind regards,

Rik
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Re: 2.4.16

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Wakko ,  I haven't seen that symptom here .  Do you want to
	trade .config's ?  Below are my stats for 11 days .  JimL

babydr@filesrv1:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        898260     884620      13640          0      39312     730824
-/+ buffers/cache:     114484     783776
Swap:       656532          0     656532

babydr@filesrv1:~$ uptime
  4:03pm  up 11 days, 50 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

babydr@filesrv1:~$ uname -a
Linux filesrv1 2.4.18-pre3 #1 SMP Sun Jan 13 15:00:08 EST 2002 i686 unknown


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Wakko Warner wrote:

> recent 2.4 kernels seem to love eating away at memory.  After 2 weeks of
> uptime, 2.2.19 would normally consume about 120mb of ram and maybe 1mb of
> swap.  With 2.4.16 it's more than doubled.  Swap usage is 128mb, memory
> useage about 230mb.  Nothing is different between what I ran with 2.2 and
> what I run now with 2.4.
>
> Is linux trying to do memory consumtion like windows now?
>
> The other odd thing is, when I go to single user (init 1), I still have
> 100-120mb memory used.  Only thing running is the shell init and kernel
> processes.  This is after all modules have been unloaded as well (my kernel
> only has what it takes to mount / and nothing more)  Where is this memory
> going?  I shouldn't have THAT much used with nothing running.
>
> memory: 512mb
> swap:   130mb (2 65mb partitions on scsi)
>
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