2.4.16
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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Quoted 5 lines · 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.
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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http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/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 656532babydr@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
Quoted 17 lines · 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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