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Re: [LUG] RH8 bash memory leak?



On 10-Feb-2003 at 11:39:54 Simon Waters wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
>> The system doesn't have anywhere near that sort of memory (real or
>> virtual):-)
> 
> Hmm in which case it seems likely to me it is a bug in "top".
> 
The problem is with the kernel. I forgot that we were running a 2.4.20-2.25
kernel from rawhide. It allegedly fixed a GRE problem, and since these are
vpn servers it seemed like it would be a good idea to use it :-) It didn't
fix the GRE as far as I know.

I went back to using a 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel and it all worked fine. The
latest 2.4.0-24.8 (?) kernel is also okay. I'll stick with the 2.4.18
kernels for the moment I think since we don't need to use 2.4.20. (Hmm,
there might have been some nic driver fixes too - we have broadcom tigon 3
gigabit cards, so I may need to test the newer 2.4.20-2.38 kernel too. Sigh.)


Thanks for the reply,


John.

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