Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 26 Jan 2006, Ariel noted:
> Is this good or bad? I'm guessing it means it's still leaking. So it's
> really starting to look like ata_piix is the problem. But we need someone
> who has the leak to remove that and see if it helps. I can't, since my
> drives are connected to it.

FWIW, a bit of negative-confirmatory evidence: I have a sym53c875
and non-SATA IDE drive on this 2.6.15.1, and there is no leak,
nor was there in 2.6.15:

    11     11 100%    0.34K      1       11         4K scsi_cmd_cache

Loaded modules:

Module                  Size  Used by
loop                   11304  0

.config attached.

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