oom-killer - Spamassassin timeout?

[Kevin Dermody]

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This may help others to resolve the problem, it certainly seems to match 
my own situation.

It appears there is a memory leak in MD (RAID driver) in the 2.6.10 kernel

some more details can be found at :

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/tree/browse_frm/thread/2eac97926485bb06/dc30b8807f846340?rnum=1&hl=en&q=tracking+down+a+memory+leak&_done=%2Fgroup%2Ffa.linux.kernel%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F2eac97926485bb06%2Fe397048fb11cc309%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3Dtracking+down+a+memory+leak%26rnum%3D1%26#doc_dc30b8807f846340 

and
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/07/msg00231.html

The command "sort -rn +1 /proc/slabinfo | head -5" shows large amounts 
of slab cache allocated for bio and biovec-1 which is a tell tale sign 
that we are experiencing this problem.

Appears fixed for 2.6.11

kevind

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