From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759413AbYEMIyD (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 04:54:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758088AbYEMIxy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 04:53:54 -0400 Received: from mail.numalliance.com ([213.41.233.134]:57082 "EHLO mail.numalliance.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757473AbYEMIxx (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 04:53:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4829566B.7090804@free.fr> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:50:51 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_ANCELOT?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: detecting kernel mem leak References: <1209462094.4816ed4e93977@imp.free.fr> <84144f020804290546h666983aci77fbb08eb507e777@mail.gmail.com> <4821C526.8030901@free.fr> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I kept my kernel running with few applications for 5 days , doing nothing more than backing up few kb of data on disk and refresh few X apps. Ater five days the global memory available go down from 24Mb to 8Mb ... The are some signifiant changes in slabinfo but now, I do not know where to search ? active_jobs : proc_inode_cache : 150 -> 299 radix_tree_node : 807 -> 870 dentry: 4092 ->4249 buffer_head: 1138 -> 4824 pid_1: 64 -> 76 size-64 : 885 -> 944 memory BEFORE AFTER : MemFree: 24324 kB.................8692Kb Buffers: 3956 kB...............18740Kb Cached: 34080 kB................34452Kb Active: 131176 kB................147592Kb Inactive: 26708 kB..................25440Kb Slab: 4692 kB........4952kB SReclaimable: 1480 kB ............. 1744kb SUnreclaim: 3212 kB...............3208kb in the ps tree only Xorg SHR memory growed from 5592 to 5612