Re: 2.4.16

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	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     656532

babydr@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

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Wakko Warner wrote:

> 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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