On Monday July 4, dkowis@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm not entirely sure if this is mdadm's fault, but I cannot find anything else that would cause the problem, since mdadm is the only new > thing and I'm pretty sure it's not 2.6.11.12's fault. Anyways, on to my issue: > I'm running samba, apache2, mysql, postgresql, and a few other things. I've got an Athlon-XP 1700+ with 768Mb RAM. Right after startup I've > got about 600Mb of free memory, and as time progresses, and I use samba for things (playing an MP3,) my amount of free memory declines > rather rapidly. It hovers around 8Mb of free ram, with no swap usage. The computer has bogged down bad enough that oom-killer has had to > kill just about everything. ps and top don't show anything eating up all my memory. I'm very impressed with mdadm and I'd like to keep using > it, but i'd also like to have a bit of free memory on my computer. I'm using an XFS file system on a 200Gb mirrored RAID array, two drives, > on seperate IDE channels (seperate cables.) > Thanks for your time, Hmmm. There is an md related memory leak in 2.6.12, but I don't think it is there in 2.6.11.anything. If 'ps' doesn't show anything, the next place to look is /proc/slabinfo (which 'slabtop' might display for you). What does 'cat /proc/slabinfo' show? NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
