Re: swap space leak in 5.0_STABLE

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:52:52AM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> On Monday 10 August 2009 10:18:51 matthew green wrote:
> >    Already tried that and no change.  Also this is happening on some
> >    machines that don't run X servers (the one I mentioned that went from
> >    10% to 27% in 1/2 hour was one such - and its now at 66% after
> >    another 8 hours).
> >
> > what's happening on this machine?
> 
> This particular machine is a xen domu that is used by students to remotely 
> log in (ssh and vnc) and "run things".  It died an hour or so after 
> sending the previous so I took the opportunity to put its kernel back to 
> the Jun 26 version but it hasn't helped - after 12 hours its at
> 
> Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
> /dev/xbd0b    2097152  2097144        8   100%    0

Any message in dmesg or /var/log/message ?
uvm can leak swap slots when under high memory pressure, but in this
case a printf() fires up.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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