> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Burger > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:02 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: Clearing out inactive memory in the in_d state > without a reboot. > > > On Wed, August 17, 2005 8:38 am, Smith, Albert said: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > >> > >> Sorry about before i meant in_d not inet.d as previously stated. > >> > >> Any advice on this problem would be great. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Andrew Bridgeman > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Old Question > >> > >> Could someone please advise on the best way of clearing > Init_d memory > >> so it gets flushed out to disk. I am running Redhat WS and > ES version > >> 3. However i cannot reboot these machines at present so i > need to do > >> it while they are on-line. We are having a problem with all of our > >> Linux machines not automatically flushing to disk. Below is what i > >> see currently on the top command. > >> > >> Mem: 3599032k av, 2926964k used, 672068k free 82052k buff > >> 469844k actv, 1731916k in_d, 54940k in_c Swap: 2044072k > >> av, 0k used, 2044072k free 2614264k cached > > > > I actually have a service call open with Dell Gold Support > about this. > > Apparently this is a known issue in the kernel with kswapd not > > releasing the memory properly. They are currently working > with RedHat > > engineering to develop a solution. > > Out of curiosity, with which kernel(s) are you seeing this > type of issue? > > I ask because, running FC3, I find that if I stick with the > old kernel-2.6.11-1.27, I'm doing well, but running any of > the released > kernel-2.6.12 packages (currently, I have 2.6.12-1.372 > installed), I've been experiencing system freezes, after 2-3 > days of uptime. > > Unfortunately, nothing shows up in dmesg, /var/log/messages, > and with screen blanking, I can't see what was on the > console, to get a better idea of what is going on. > > I've reverted back to 2.6.11-1.27, for now. > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 > > To be notified of updates to the web site, visit > http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or > send a message to: > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a message of: > > subscribe > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > The currentl released kernel of AS3 is 2.4.21-32.0.1.Elsmp and it exists in this kernel and the 27 kernel. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
