From: "Chuck Crisler" <ccrisler@vgocom.com>
To: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: memory leak in scan with 9170?
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:16:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58E3CFACA7054DC48245C67E9D4AE07B@ChuckPC> (raw)
I have modified my code that is using a 9170. I am really concerned about
roaming and so am testing that pretty hard. Yesterday I had a loop that
forced a DISCONNECT followed by a REASSOCIATE every 30 seconds. After
between 1:30 and 1:40 it failed by no longer receiving scan results. When I
looked into a log, the very last scan results that I received had a reduced
number of BSSs, down from 10-12 per scan to 4, then the next scan was zero.
It never recovered. All scans always failed to return any results from then
on and, of course, the re-associate failed. This 'feels' to me like a memory
leak somewhere, either in the firmware or the driver. I am running the
2.6.31 kernel/driver and the dual file firmware and version 0.6.10 of the
supplicant. At the moment I am running another test where it roams every 60
seconds rather than 30 seconds to see what kind of difference that makes. I
know that my kernel is old, but for now I don't have a choice. Does anyone
have any experience like this or insight into this new problem? This is an
embedded device that doesn't have the memory of a PC. Is there some way that
I could instrument something to check this?
Thank you,
Chuck
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-27 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-27 17:16 Chuck Crisler [this message]
2010-09-27 17:31 ` memory leak in scan with 9170? Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-27 22:40 ` Chuck Crisler
2010-09-27 23:01 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-27 23:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-28 7:24 ` Johannes Berg
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