On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:43:20 -0700, Amar Tumballi <amar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the update, I'll try it tonight. Any news on the memory leak? >> Have you managed to track it down yet? >> > > We noticed that its some issue with 'arena algorithm' of glibc's memory > management. We are working on solving this issue properly. Should have an > update soon. As of now, there is no 'leak' observed, but all of the issues > were related to memory fragmentation problems. Interesting. I can't quite see how memory fragmentation could be responsible for such extreme memory usage growth that eventually uses up all RAM+swap, but I'll be happy to test this when I manage to get rc5 to boot. Gordan
