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[coLinux-devel] a. Memory leak ?, b. number of /dev/cobd?
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From: Axel J. <je...@MP...> - 2004-04-14 09:52:08
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Hello everyone,
I am finding coLinux allready an extremely useful and productive way to help me use the best of both the Linux and
Win-world. I am running it on a WIN2K Laptop (1 GB RAM and 2 GHz clock) where both are stable.
Problem a.
I made an overnight test using my own software to create an index of several 10k binary raw data files residing in roughly two
hundred directories on an external 160 GB USB masstorage drive. This meant finding, opening reading each file and writing some
catalogue information to a text file.
All in all this were about 90 GB of data. The programme started to execute quickly and efficiently but in the next morning it
had ground to slow crawl. I found that everthing was swapped out and and swap-use continued to increase.
I then found that even without the programme running, with a constant number of idle processes, free memory is slowly eaten
up at about 100kB per minute. I attached two successive "top-results" to this mail. Apparently the reservation for Buffer
increases regularely and this is taken away from free mem. Comparing that to a another (RedHat two-cpus) system I find
that bufferspace also increases there, but not to the detriment of free mem. Could there be a problem with memory garbage
collection in colinux? Or can that be remedied in another way?
Problem b.
One of the great and ingenious advantages of coLinux and its interface to WIN is the fact that one can mount nearly all devices
that WIN can mount, including i.e. masstorage on the WIN-USB ports either as flash memory sticks or big external
disks. Nice is the facility to mount even more than WIN, i.e. the reiser partions on which the alternat boot Linux resides.
This is normally not accessible by WIN. Please include it in the next kernel release as compiled in, if possible.
Only the UDF-Packet format for CD-RWs posing as external RW-drives doesn't work, but this isn't supported by ordinary
Linux either. In colinux I encounter a limitation in the number of /dev/cobd slots that can be allocated. On bootup the
console message say eight are supported, but there are only four /dev/cobd0-3. I could not find the location whre this limit
is set, nor could I increase the number of cobd in any other way. Does that depend on the kernel or on the debian
base image?
I am truly grateful for the superb ideas and all the work you have put into the colinux development, it is certainly better
and more useful that VMware which was quite troublesome so that we don't use it much any more.
cheers
Axel Jessner
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> after boot and login via ssh
11:10:30 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01
32 processes: 30 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
Mem: 94540K total, 18324K used, 76216K free, 1844K buffers
Swap: 262136K total, 0K used, 262136K free, 8604K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1 root 7 0 484 484 424 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
64 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd
88 daemon 9 0 416 416 344 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 portmap
148 root 9 0 780 780 664 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 syslogd
151 root 9 0 508 508 380 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 klogd
163 root 9 0 728 728 644 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 inetd
167 root 9 0 744 744 652 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 lpd
173 root 9 0 1204 1204 768 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 nmbd
181 root 9 0 1240 1240 768 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 smbd
194 root 10 0 1280 1280 1156 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 sshd
197 daemon 9 0 580 580 504 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 atd
200 root 9 0 684 684 564 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 cron
212 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
213 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
214 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
215 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
216 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
230 root 10 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
242 root 10 0 1832 1832 1676 S 0.0 1.9 0:00 sshd
244 jessner 14 0 1936 1936 1736 R 0.0 2.0 0:00 sshd
245 jessner 11 0 1036 1036 764 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 tcsh
246 jessner 11 0 816 816 644 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 sftp-server
247 jessner 13 0 1036 1036 764 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 tcsh
248 jessner 13 0 1480 1480 960 S 0.0 1.5 0:00 tcsh
249 jessner 13 0 816 816 644 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 sftp-server
250 jessner 14 0 932 932 748 R 0.0 0.9 0:00 top
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> After 1 minute
11:11:20 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
32 processes: 30 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 99.8% idle
Mem: 94540K total, 18412K used, 76128K free, 1932K buffers
Swap: 262136K total, 0K used, 262136K free, 8604K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
244 jessner 15 0 1936 1936 1736 R 0.1 2.0 0:00 sshd
1 root 8 0 484 484 424 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
64 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd
88 daemon 9 0 416 416 344 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 portmap
148 root 9 0 780 780 664 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 syslogd
151 root 9 0 508 508 380 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 klogd
163 root 9 0 728 728 644 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 inetd
167 root 9 0 744 744 652 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 lpd
173 root 9 0 1204 1204 768 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 nmbd
181 root 9 0 1240 1240 768 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 smbd
194 root 9 0 1280 1280 1156 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 sshd
197 daemon 9 0 580 580 504 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 atd
200 root 9 0 684 684 564 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 cron
212 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
213 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
214 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
215 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
216 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
230 root 9 0 468 468 408 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 getty
242 root 9 0 1832 1832 1676 S 0.0 1.9 0:00 sshd
245 jessner 10 0 1036 1036 764 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 tcsh
246 jessner 10 0 816 816 644 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 sftp-server
247 jessner 11 0 1036 1036 764 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 tcsh
248 jessner 11 0 1480 1480 960 S 0.0 1.5 0:00 tcsh
249 jessner 11 0 816 816 644 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 sftp-server
250 jessner 11 0 932 932 748 R 0.0 0.9 0:00 top
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Dr. Axel Jessner
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