I appear to have a memory leak (avg 100k/sec) coming from the kernel or kernel module. At least when I look at top, sorted by memory, I don't see any user space processes getting larger.
I think I've ruled out most programs by disabling them from starting up.
Also, I've ruled out most hardware problems by disabling on board devices (SCSI,NIC,USB,Serial,Parallel) through bios with no effect. One device I couldn't test was my 3ware drive controller. I think in order to completely rule out hardware, I need to reinstall on a junk hard drive(s) and see if the problem persists; I think this is my next step.
uname:
Linux billinux 2.4.20-6smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 27 09:59:40 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
procinfo: Linux 2.4.20-6smp (bhcompile@porky) (gcc 3.2.2 20030222 ) #1 4CPU [billinux]
Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Cached
Mem: 1159560 113204 1046356 0 12612 27552
Swap: 257000 0 257000
Bootup: Sat Apr 24 08:26:29 2004 Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/74 825
user : 0:00:04.21 0.0% page in : 33942 disk 1: 3175r 2637w
nice : 0:00:00.00 0.0% page out: 20829
system: 0:00:11.36 0.1% swap in : 1
idle : 2:04:25.95 99.8% swap out: 0
uptime: 0:31:10.38 context : 34591
irq 0: 187038 timer irq 10: 0 usb-ohci
irq 1: 3 keyboard irq 12: 20
irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 15: 2 ide1
irq 4: 6 serial irq 16: 2951 eth0
irq 6: 3 irq 20: 5803 3ware Storage Contro
irq 7: 1 irq 29: 40 ioc0
irq 8: 1 rtc
How else might I determine what the source of this problem is?
Thanks,
Bill
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