* Donald E. Stidwell (stidwell@visi.net) [010513 17:15]: ->On Sunday 13 May 2001 16:13, Gary A. Garibaldi wrote: ->> Has anyone noticed a memory leak in Kernel 2.4.2. Just upgraded to 256megs ->> and still using the swap file. I didn't think that would happen unless I ->> ran a bunch of programs at the same time. -> ->I've noticed this on all kernels I've used with any Linux distro. I have 256 ->megs on my main box as well and it seems that some swap is _always_ used. I ->believe this is normal behaviour because of the Linux memory model (someone ->else is welcome to correct/expand on this - my knowledge of this area is ->pretty sketchy). However, use of swap seems to be minimal if you have ->sufficient RAM. My box has 384M of ram and I always have tons of stuff running. I never see anymore then a 1/2 meg used unless something goes wanky like Mozilla an starts to suck the life out of the machine. If you have 256M then you shouldn't see a lot of swap use. BTW..I am using the 2.4.2 kernel that Hubert Mantel put out. It seems to work fine. I have a 32 day uptime with nothing weird that I can speak of happening. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.