Description of problem: During large file operations (actualy copying files via network from the old machine to the newer), the memory usage of the system increases, up to filling the whole swap and thus the system is unusable. killing the transfer does nothing, the memory never get freed. Happens of any type of network transfer, scp, rsync, ftp Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux morgor 2.6.15-1.1977_FC5 #1 SMP Thu Feb 23 14:55:24 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. do a transfer of many, large files via network. use any method. verified with scp, rsync -e ssh, ftp. Actualy was copying from network something like 30gb of large files to the FC5-test3 machine. Actual results: the memory usage increase, when full the cache mem decrease and then swap is used... when also swap is full, the system is unusable. Killing the process that does the transfer does nothing, the memory never get freed. Additional info: seems something into the kernel, looking at /proc/slabinfo bio and biovec-1 grow in obj number. attached slabinfo dump. * /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 47 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm bogomips : 2007.50 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm st * mount /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) 192.168.1.63:/home on /home type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.1.63) 192.168.1.63:/mnt/bigdisk/space on /mnt/space type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.1.63) automount(pid2028) on /net type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2028,minproto=2,maxproto=4) * lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6 399201 18 ppdev 42569 0 autofs4 55369 1 nfs 251417 2 lockd 97105 2 nfs nfs_acl 36929 1 nfs sunrpc 192265 4 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl rfcomm 105057 0 l2cap 91841 5 rfcomm bluetooth 117189 4 rfcomm,l2cap dm_mirror 54721 0 dm_mod 90385 1 dm_mirror video 50633 0 button 40673 0 battery 43465 0 ac 38601 0 lp 47761 0 parport_pc 62825 1 parport 74189 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc nvram 42569 0 sg 69225 0 ehci_hcd 65357 0 snd_via82xx 63465 0 gameport 50513 1 snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec 136217 1 snd_via82xx nvidia 4892976 0 snd_ac97_bus 35905 1 snd_ac97_codec ohci1394 68121 0 uhci_hcd 65633 0 ieee1394 392025 1 ohci1394 snd_seq_dummy 37189 0 snd_seq_oss 66369 0 snd_seq_midi_event 41281 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 89953 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 85713 0 snd_mixer_oss 51009 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 126537 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 59593 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 44625 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 41793 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 61505 1 snd_mpu401_uart i2c_viapro 42841 0 i2c_core 57537 1 i2c_viapro snd_seq_device 42961 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi skge 72273 0 snd 97257 11 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 44257 1 snd raid1 54977 2 ext3 164177 2 jbd 93672 1 ext3 sata_promise 45893 6 sata_via 42565 0 libata 93913 2 sata_promise,sata_via sd_mod 50881 8 scsi_mod 181393 4 sg,sata_promise,libata,sd_mod
Created attachment 125240 [details] dump of cat /proc/slabinfo
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182970 ***