From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759275AbYEMKgg (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 06:36:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753411AbYEMKg2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 06:36:28 -0400 Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([87.79.32.166]:3437 "EHLO postfix1.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752834AbYEMKg1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 06:36:27 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 611 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 06:36:27 EDT Message-ID: <48296CBD.9030904@wpkg.org> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:26:05 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080504) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML , sancelot@free.fr Subject: Re: detecting kernel mem leak Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 ? Look at these values more closely - this is where your memory is "gone": > MemFree: 24324 kB.................8692Kb > Buffers: 3956 kB...............18740Kb -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org