From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Patrick Plattes <patrick@erdbeere.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Aleksander Pavic <aleksander.pavic@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Memory leak with 2.6.12 and cdrecord
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:06:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120565206.12942.3.camel@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050705113343.GA6349@erdbeere.net>
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:33 +0200, Patrick Plattes wrote:
> Hi Ho :-),
>
> we have some trouble with the 2.6v kernel tree and CDRecord 2.01 (Debian
> Sarge package). If we try to write an 150MB CD the memory fills up to
> 150MB. The memory will not deallocate after closing cdrecord. Next if we
> try to write an 200MB CD the memory will filled up to additional 50MB.
>
> We don't know which part of the software is steals our memory. This only
> happens on 2.6, not on an 2.4 system and we can reproduce the bug only
> on the asus notebook.
>
> We have tried to find the leak with top and slabtop, but inconclusively. I
> put some information together. The informations are taken from the system
> after burning a 154MB CD. Please have a look at: http://cdrecord.sourcecode.cc .
> I uploaded the files to this address, to avoid high traffic on the lkml.
Please post /proc/slabinfo as well.
--
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-05 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-05 11:33 Memory leak with 2.6.12 and cdrecord Patrick Plattes
2005-07-05 12:06 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-07-05 15:50 ` Patrick Plattes
2005-07-06 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
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