I bet there's a patch for this, and I've just missed it.
I've got an alpha with osf 3.0, pretty heavily used (around 75-120 people
logged on all the time).
It degrades during the time it is up, until it is no longer a useful
machine and has to be rebooted.
It runs slap out of swap space.
On reboot, the kernel's RSS is around 608k, and VSZ is about 1.77m.
Here I am, one day after reboot, and RSS = 29m, and VSZ = 317m.
Yesterday, before I rebooted, while the system was unusable, RSS was 85m
and VSZ was 324m.
swapon -s said both of the swap partitions were mostly full, only a few
percent of the total was left. ps aux showed me no other things that looked
crazy big.
I guess I'm seeing a kernel memory leak, maybe I'm on the wrong track.
Any ideas?
-Mike
Received on Thu Apr 13 1995 - 09:42:28 NZST