Thursday, July 31, 2003, 11:14:51 PM, you wrote: DC> I am not sure what everyone else's environments are like, but I am DC> definitely getting memory infinitely swallowed into Netfilter somewhere. DC> I have userspace programs, but put together they take less than 5% of DC> the system memory. I am getting only on this particular 2.4.22-pre6 and ipt1.2.8 w/patch-o-matic-20030714 As Aldo S. Lagana noted it might be conntracking but it does not seem logical - conntracking entries shrinking, ram usage growing. I hope it hold the peak hours tomorrow. DC> I forced myself to reboot once the ACTIVE memory takes 95% of the CPU, DC> which was every 3 weeks with 196mb of RAM. This server averaged 200 - DC> 250 connection tracks during office hours. The ramping active memory DC> usage went up in a very linear pattern until it took all the system, at DC> which point I would have to reboot due to performance degradation. I hope i dont have to reboot tomorrow.. DC> The last reboot, I decided to play with the machine's settings and add DC> some memory totaling 256MB. I also disabled my SWAP partition because I DC> have a few database servers that perform fantastically when kswapd isn't DC> used much. I am not swapping at all, since the machine loads everything from 16MB ide flash. DC> The result: Active memory 'seems' to have stabilized around 75MB at DC> least for the few days that it has been stable. I cannot tell if this DC> was totally kswap's fault, or even if the problem has been fixed at all. DC> It does look promising though. We'll see, thanks. P.Krumins
