Bugzilla Bug 138818

After upgrading two machines from mdadm 1.12.0 to 2.5-r1 they are starting to
eat a lot of memory. There seems to be a memory leakage in 2.5 and I have read
that it should be fixed in 2.5.1. Please mark mdadm 2.5.1 stable as soon as
possible.

Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16.11
i686)
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System uname: 2.6.16.11 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/
http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cgi cli crypt ctype
cups dri eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mhash
mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss
pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline
reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd threads tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib
elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en
userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_fglrx video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

mdadm-2.5.2 has been released. Maybe better to try to stabilize this version as
soon as possible.

2.5.2 in portage

*** Bug 139074 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***