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Bug 80069
| Summary: | kernel is "leaking" memory | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Manfred Hollstein <manfredh> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | CC: | pfrields |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-10-30 03:51:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 79579, 100644 | ||
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021203 Description of problem: I put kernel-2.4.20-1 (plus all required dependencies hwdata, kudzu, mkinitrd, modutils) on my otherwise up2date 8.0 system, booted and watched the swap space constantly growing... The funny thing is, that it starts allocating swap even when plenty of RAM is still free. Right after booting and after logging in using Gnome, free shows 24MB swap already being allocated with appr. 420MB free RAM left (the system has 512MB RAM). One can then fire up top and sit there watching allocated swap growing and growing :-( FWIW, using a vanilla 2.4.20 plus Alan's ac2 patch does not show this behaviour. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install listed RPMs 2.Boot system 3.Watch memory data reported by the "free" program (or use "top") Actual Results: Allocated swap space is constantly growing, even when nothing is actively running on the system. Expected Results: No swap space should be allocated, in other words memory usage should remain constant if nothing is running on the system. Additional info: