From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Cc: gsstark@mit.edu, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-ac2 Memory Leak?
Date: 19 Mar 2003 09:55:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871y139zij.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048030102.1521.77.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se>
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 00:17, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > My router box has a problem, it seems to be running out of memory. Programs
> > that worked fine earlier are now swapping like crazy.
> >
> > What confuses me is that if I add up all the RSS of the processes I get 5.9M,
> > a number drastically lower than the available RAM on the machine (24M) and
> > drastically lower than the amount of RAM "free" says is taken (22M).
> >
> > It seems something in kernel space has taken a ton of memory out of play?
> > Or is my diagnosis wrong?
One thing I find suspicious is that my ISP was down yesterday morning, causing
pppd to try repeatedly to connect. It seems it attempted to connect over 3,000
times while the ISP was down. Every connection failed at the PAP
authentication stage.
Perhaps there's a memory leak in the pppoe connection initiation process?
Even so that would be about 4k per pppoe connection attempt. Hm, a page?
--
greg
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-19 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-18 23:17 Gregory Stark
2003-03-18 23:28 ` Martin Josefsson
2003-03-18 23:46 ` Greg Stark
2003-03-18 23:53 ` Martin Josefsson
2003-03-19 0:05 ` Greg Stark
2003-03-19 14:55 ` Greg Stark [this message]
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