Re: [2.2.13] memory leak in NFS if a sever goes away?

[Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> > Are there some known issues with 2.2.13, for example, a memory leak in
> > the NFS code which is triggered in this specific situation?
> 
> There are known security threats in 2.2.x which have been fixed in
> 2.2.16, and there have been VM fixes in a later version, and further
> minor but numerable security fixes in 2.2.19.

The system has already been installed from scratch, using a more
recent kernel version.  I agree that the kind of information I'm
looking for is not crucial for running a current Linux kernel, but we
were specifically asked to explain what has happened to the machine
(and we do have satisfactory explanations for other strange things
which were obsvered---no it wasn't hacked ;-), but this problem still
remains a bit mysterious.  I just wanted to make sure that the problem
described in my first posting is not a once well-known issue with
2.2.13 or other 2.2.x kernels, and that I didn't miss an obvious
explanation.

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