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* detecting kernel mem leak
@ 2008-04-29  9:41 sancelot
  2008-04-29 12:46 ` Pekka Enberg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: sancelot @ 2008-04-29  9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi,

I noticed the memory was growing without doing anything in my system ....after
some investigations , it looks like some kernel components may be involved in
this problem.


I would like to know if there is a way to monitor activity of memory (de)alloc
of the kernel in order to target which partof the system/kernel could do this..?

Best Regards
S.Ancelot








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* Re: detecting kernel mem leak
@ 2008-05-13 10:26 Tomasz Chmielewski
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Tomasz Chmielewski @ 2008-05-13 10:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML, sancelot

> 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


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2008-04-29 12:46 ` Pekka Enberg
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2008-05-07 17:21       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-13  8:50         ` Stéphane ANCELOT
2008-05-13 19:45           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-15 10:58             ` Stéphane ANCELOT
2008-05-15 17:38           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-16  8:58             ` Stéphane ANCELOT
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2008-05-13 10:26 Tomasz Chmielewski

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