Memory leak?

[Nathan Grennan]

Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> I believe I have a memory leak someplace on the system,  over several 
> days I watch the used memory slowly climb and eventually the system 
> starts swapping, the application load has not changed.  I have tried 
> stopping processes and restarting them in the hopes that the memory 
> would be returned to the system but no such luck.
>
> The system is Fedora Core 4, the main applications on the system are:
>
> mailman 2.1.7 (built from sources)
> exim 4.60 (built from sources)
> spamassassin 3.10 (built from sources)
> named 9.3.2 (built from sources)
>
> everything else was installed via yum and is the most current install 
> available from the FC repositories.
>
> These programs are:
> apache 2.0.54
> postgresql 8.0.6 (used for exim's databases only)
> perl 5.8.6
> python 2.4.1
> imap/popd version ??
> sshd (Open SSH) 4.2P1
> Kernel 2.4.16-1
> How can I track down the source of the memory leak?
>
> according to "top" spamd (spamassassin) is the largest consumer of 
> memory, however it seems to stay pretty stable compaired to how fast 
> memory usage is climbing
>
> TIA, Jeff
>
  I saw a similar problem with kernel-2.6.15-1.1824_FC4 on one server. I 
tracked it back to slab debugging.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177593