memory leak in 2.4.17

[Shawn Tayler]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:36:50 -0500, kurt.wall at timesys.com wrote:

>I run stock 2.4.17 and have seen no problems. Moreover, I would suspect
>non-kernel applications before the kernel. Please define "strange memory
>use growth."

Well,

As an example, I have one system that is used simple as a workstation, other than it is running the RC5 client, it just 
sits with KDM up.  It gets logged into by various users.  Some email is read and the web is used on it, Kongy and 
Opera TP3 are the apps.  It was running for about 2 weeks with out a reboot at the time.  It was acting rather sluggish 
so I ran free.  I had 160M of a 200M swap file in use and only 4M out of 128 available.  Shutting down opera and 
kmail clear alot but there was still 20M of swap in use.  A friend has a system that is a guinea pig and had been 
sitting for a few weeks without the afore mentioned type use.  It also has the appearance of swap growth and 
memory usage.  It does have the pre-emptive patch as well.  

So I was fishing for data on stock 2.4.17 usage.

Can I provide anymore info that may help?

stayler