From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Recent 3.x kernels: Memory leak causing OOMs
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:34:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217183428.GA8687@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140216214354.GA12947@thunk.org>
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 04:43:54PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 08:05:04PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > I have another machine which OOM'd a week ago with plenty of unused swap
> > - it uses ext3 on raid1 and is a more busy system. That took 41 days
> > to show, and upon reboot, it got a kernel with kmemleak enabled. So far,
> > after 7 days, kmemleak has found nothing at all.
>
> If kmemleak doesn't show anything, then presumably it's not a leak of
> the slab object. Does /proc/meminfo show anything interesting? Maybe
> it's a page getting leaked (which wouldn't be noticed by kmemleak)
Kmemleak also doesn't notice leaked objects that are added to a list for
example (still referenced). Maybe /proc/slabinfo would give some clues.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-16 20:05 Recent 3.x kernels: Memory leak causing OOMs Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-16 21:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-17 18:34 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-02-16 22:17 ` David Rientjes
2014-02-16 22:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-16 23:42 ` David Rientjes
2014-02-17 21:02 ` Maxime Bizon
2014-02-17 21:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-03-15 10:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-03-17 7:07 ` NeilBrown
2014-03-17 8:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-03-17 18:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-17 19:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-01 9:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-01 11:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-01 14:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-02 23:28 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-01 15:58 ` Catalin Marinas
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