Bug 90688
Summary: | (VM)cached memory not releasing | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | 97fr97f <terry.young> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 8.0 | CC: | alan, blocke, riel |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
97fr97f
2003-05-12 15:33:16 UTC
The system caches anything it can until the memory is needed for another purpose. So that isnt a bug. Older RH kernels such as the one shipped with 8.0 were a bit bad about giving it back sometimes and could underperform. Errata kernels should have resolved this If not please re-open giving the errata kernel you are using I'm afraid this behaviour has not been fixed at all (at least with my work loads). With squid running and doing constant disk reads and writes both cache and buffer increase to the point where the kernel starts swapping large parts of squid out over time. This bug seems to be a duplicate of #89226. Please can you give the kernel errata you are currently running 2.4.20-18.9smp on Red Hat 9, fully patched (to the best of my knowledge) I'm going to backport the latest -rmap upgrades to this kernel Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |