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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:06:34 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Rising io_load results Re: 2.5.63-mm1
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Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi Con, are you sure this is not the same for 2.5.63?
> I left 2.5.63 running over night (doing nothing but run
> KDE), and in the morning it was swapping heavily.
> About 200MB was swapped out and this did not reduce
> with usage.  According to top, 10% of memory was being
> used by a Konsole with nothing in it (could be a memory
> leak in Konsole).  After half an hour I gave up - it was
> too unusable.  Maybe -mm1 just accentuates a problem
> that is already there in 2.5.63.
> 

Please take a snapshot of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo
if anything like this happens.