From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:40:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BDEFB4.1010106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6101e8c40802210825v534f0ce3wf80a18ebd6dee925@mail.gmail.com>
Oliver Pinter wrote:
>>> I have added a new graph to
>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991, namely a graph
>>> showing memory usage for a PAE-kernel booted with mem=1G and with a
>>> minimized kernel config. The graph shows that memory usage increases
>>> to a certain limit. Other tests have shown that this limit is
>>> proportional to the amount of memory specified in mem=... This is not
>>> a SLAB leak: as the numbers show, slab usage remains constant during
>>> all tests.
>>>
>>> I'm puzzled by these results ...
>>>
This sounds to me a lot like the quicklist PUD leak we had, which I
thought had been fixed in recent kernels...
It would be useful to know: does this happen with UP at all?
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-21 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 11:00 SMP-related kernel memory leak Bart Van Assche
2008-02-19 18:18 ` Oliver Pinter
2008-02-20 7:27 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <6101e8c40802201342y7e792e70lbd398f84a58a38bd@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <e2e108260802210048y653031f3r3104399f126336c5@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <e2e108260802210800x5f55fee7ve6e768607d73ceb0@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <6101e8c40802210821w626bc831uaf4c3f66fb097094@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-21 16:25 ` Oliver Pinter
2008-02-21 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-02-22 7:52 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-02-22 16:44 ` Oliver Pinter
2008-02-22 16:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-22 23:12 ` Oliver Pinter
2008-02-22 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-23 8:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-02-27 19:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-28 9:50 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-02-27 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-27 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-22 12:06 ` Bart Van Assche
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