For the last year i started running Linux on it, Debian stable, unstable, testing. kernel version 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6. All kinds of different combinations.
At first it was just to test and have fun. But since 5 months ago i had to use it for more serious stuff and thats about the time i started to notice the serious memory leak.
I always thought it was something i compiled wrong or forgot. I tried alot of combinations but the memory leak remains. So two weeks ago the harddrive crashed because of the heat. Now i JUST reinstalled and are running Debian Sarge with kernel version 2.4.26-1-386 which is not a custom compiled kernel, but then again i know I cant compile a kernel which removes the memory leak so this single cpu kernel is fine until i find and remove the leak.
I have been running bios version RU for a long time, just patched to RV yesterday, the APIC Errors i used to get are gone i think, i actually thought that was the problem until i read about what it was on the forum, i still tried to disable it in the bios to see if it made a difference, it diden't.
Following are 2 TOP dumps, first is RIGHT after boot, the second is a little later, only SSHD and apt-get was used in the meantime:
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top - 01:08:43 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
Tasks: 25 total, 1 running, 24 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.4% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 99.6% idle
Mem: 516364k total, 50080k used, 466284k free, 4732k buffers
Swap: 497972k total, 0k used, 497972k free, 35180k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
740 root 13 0 1908 1904 1664 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.06 sshd
708 Debian-e 9 0 1468 1464 1248 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 exim4
721 root 9 0 1440 1440 1312 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.01 sshd
743 root 18 0 1404 1404 1120 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 bash
677 root 9 0 1344 1344 476 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.25 klogd
745 root 19 0 1036 1036 844 R 0.4 0.2 0:00.02 top
728 root 9 0 712 712 608 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 cron
585 root 9 0 664 664 548 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dhclient
725 daemon 9 0 624 624 548 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 atd
674 root 9 0 612 612 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 syslogd
714 root 9 0 520 520 464 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 inetd
1 root 10 0 508 504 456 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.15 init
734 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 getty
735 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
736 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
737 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
738 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
739 root 10 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 getty
2 root 8 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kupdated
105 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald
370 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
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top - 09:00:34 up 9:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 25 total, 1 running, 24 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
Mem: 516364k total, 269728k used, 246636k free, 15204k buffers
Swap: 497972k total, 0k used, 497972k free, 233652k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1458 root 12 0 1908 1904 1664 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.04 sshd
705 Debian-e 9 0 1468 1464 1248 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.01 exim4
1005 root 9 0 1440 1440 1312 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 sshd
1461 root 14 0 1404 1404 1120 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.02 bash
674 root 9 0 1344 1344 476 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.28 klogd
1463 root 19 0 1036 1036 844 R 0.0 0.2 0:00.06 top
725 root 9 0 712 712 608 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 cron
585 root 9 0 664 664 548 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 dhclient
722 daemon 9 0 624 624 548 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 atd
671 root 9 0 612 612 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 syslogd
711 root 9 0 520 520 464 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 inetd
1 root 7 0 508 504 456 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.20 init
731 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
732 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
733 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
734 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 getty
735 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
736 root 9 0 472 472 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty
2 root 8 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kupdated
105 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.49 kjournald
368 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
Im all out of ideas now, i dont understand why i am the ONLY one with this problem, and why its only under linux, not windows.
I actually thought about switching to FreeBSD, but i know nothing about it and i LOVE debian, apt truely has super cow powers
If anyone can help me got damnit i will name something after you!
Looking forward to replies with much anticipation...
MayDay