Bug 139074

Summary:	mdadm 2.5-r1 memory leak in monitor mode
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	harno <harno>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description harno 2006-07-03 13:13:37 UTC

i activated monitor mode some time ago and just noticed that my mdadm was using more than 450mb ram after an uptime of about 12 hours.
a quick search showed that this seems to be a confirmed bug in release 2.5, resolved by >=2.5.1

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372618
http://neil.brown.name/blog/20060526101457
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ChangeLog


mdadm.conf:
DEVICE /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=.....
MAILADDR .....

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-03 13:14:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138818 ***