Nathan Grennan wrote:
Jeffrey Ross wrote:
I believe I have a memory leak someplace on the system, over several
days I watch the used memory slowly climb and eventually the system
starts swapping, the application load has not changed. I have tried
stopping processes and restarting them in the hopes that the memory
would be returned to the system but no such luck.
Kernel 2.4.16-1
How can I track down the source of the memory leak?
according to "top" spamd (spamassassin) is the largest consumer of
memory, however it seems to stay pretty stable compaired to how fast
memory usage is climbing
TIA, Jeff
I saw a similar problem with kernel-2.6.15-1.1824_FC4 on one server. I
tracked it back to slab debugging.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177593
First, my mistake, the kernel is 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 not 2.4.16-1
is slab debugging turned on in this kernel? and if so how do I disable
it without rebuilding the kernel? can I write something to /proc/???
Part of my problem is this is a memory challenged system and due to
hardware constraints I can't up the memory without changing the
motherboard. The only saving grace is I am not running a gui interface
on the machine.
thanks
Jeff
