From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: The amount of memory used for pagetables constantly increases, until the system starts swapping. Eventually the OOM killer gets rid of processes, but the amount used never goes down significantly. I checked the amount frequently during shutdown with SysRq-M, and it was stuck around 210000 pages on a 1GB athlon64. This seems to indicate that the leak is not due to a user space program. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.640 and kernel-2.6.9-1.643 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. Wait a day or two 3. Listen to hard drive constantly seeking and watch machine become gradually useless Additional info:
Is your problem Bug #132947? Try the patch there.
I think this is a dupe yes, sorry. I haven't yet tried the patch, since a rebuild of the kernel rpm ends up saying: gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available. Once I figure out how to get around that, I'll try the patch.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132947 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.