Memory Leaking from recent updates

[Andy Green]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hi folks -

Since yum updating a few days ago, I notice that in the morning I am seeing 
abnormal amounts of memory allocated, even though I have few apps open, just 
kMail, Konqueror and a shell su-'d to root.  I did not see this behaviour 
before the recent updates.

Here are the biggest memory users according to top (basically nothing)

 1653 root      16   0 99.5m  29m  74m S  0.7  3.0  10:56.66 X
 1839 agreen    16   0 56424  36m  41m S  0.0  3.6   0:22.90 kmail
 1823 agreen    15   0 36544  22m  29m S  0.0  2.2   0:00.77 kdeinit
 1824 agreen    15   0 36408  21m  29m S  0.0  2.2   0:00.76 kdeinit
 1819 agreen    15   0 35768  21m  29m S  0.0  2.1   0:00.70 kdeinit

[root at fastcat root]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      1034740 kB
MemFree:         35820 kB
Buffers:        147764 kB
Cached:         188628 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         352124 kB
Inactive:       107460 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      1034740 kB
LowFree:         35820 kB
SwapTotal:     1044216 kB
SwapFree:      1044216 kB
Dirty:              24 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         179116 kB
Slab:           529080 kB
Committed_AS:   231672 kB
PageTables:       3444 kB
VmallocTotal:  3088376 kB
VmallocUsed:      2236 kB
VmallocChunk:  3085972 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

I have KSysGuard running in the KDE Panel so I can monitor CPU, Memory and 
Network traffic, it is showing around 2/3rds of the 1GB of memory on this 
machine allocated (not for cache, allocated).  I can't tell if the numbers 
above from /proc/meminfo reflect that, maybe there is a problem with 
KSysGuard.

If not it seems some non-user process might be leaking memory on this machine.  
Here are the modules.

[root at fastcat root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
audio                  43652  0
sg                     27936  0
usb_storage            58592  1
usblp                  10628  0
p8022                   1792  0
psnap                   3332  0
llc                     5140  2 p8022,psnap
wacom                  10244  0
snd_usb_audio          59240  0
snd_intel8x0           30376  0
snd_ac97_codec         54276  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                82568  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              25092  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8068  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                3968  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         7296  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            21408  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6280  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    43748  8 
snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7520  2 audio,snd
b44                    19972  0
autofs4                16896  0
ipt_REJECT              4736  1
ipt_state               1536  1
ip_conntrack           24368  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          2176  1
ip_tables              13568  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
microcode               5408  0
vfat                   13184  0
fat                    39328  1 vfat
sd_mod                 16896  2
scsi_mod              103504  3 sg,usb_storage,sd_mod
uhci_hcd               35228  0
ehci_hcd               26120  0
usbcore                91700  9 
audio,usb_storage,usblp,wacom,snd_usb_audio,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
button                  4632  0
battery                 7052  0
asus_acpi               8600  0
ac                      3596  0
ext3                   95016  3
jbd                    65944  1 ext3


Unfortunately with this machine, Inspiron 5150 with nVidia, currently running 
the vesa Xorg driver, I cannot transition to runlevel 3 and see which side of 
X the problem is on, as the machine locks solid when attempting to return to 
text video mode, by killing X or by Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc.

Is anyone else seeing leaking or has any ideas?

- -Andy

- -- 
Find your answer without waiting for replies....
Searchable list archives at 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAb7jajKeDCxMJCTIRAiHMAJ0SrHWqxKP1CW4MJRulBrSxW5F7EACfb1+c
wcntyGHpfVAU0V3+Td6aNwg=
=E71z
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----