On Sat, Jan 22 2005, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> fre 2005-01-21 klockan 17:19 +0100 skrev Jan Kasprzak:
> > 	Hi all,
> > 
> > I've been running 2.6.11-rc1 on my dual opteron Fedora Core 3 box for a week
> > now, and I think there is a memory leak somewhere. I am measuring the
> > size of active and inactive pages (from /proc/meminfo), and it seems
> > that the count of sum (active+inactive) pages is decreasing. Please
> > take look at the graphs at
> > 
> > http://www.linux.cz/stats/mrtg-rrd/vm_active.html
> > 
> > (especially the "monthly" graph) - I've booted 2.6.11-rc1 last Friday,
> > and since then the size of "inactive" pages is decreasing almost
> > constantly, while "active" is not increasing. The active+inactive
> > sum has been steady before, as you can see from both the monthly
> > and yearly graphs.
> > 
> > Now I am playing with 2.6.11-rc1-bk snapshots to see what happens.
> > I have been running 2.6.10-rc3 before. More info is available, please ask me.
> > The box runs 3ware 7506-8 controller with SW RAID-0, 1, and 5 volumes,
> > Tigon3 network card. The main load is FTP server, and there is also
> > a HTTP server and Qmail.
> 
> Others have seen this as well, the reports indicated that it takes a day
> or two before it becomes noticeable. When it happens next time please
> capture the output of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo.

This is after 2 days of uptime, the box is basically unusable.

-- 
Jens Axboe