From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Milos Jakovljevic <sukijaki@gmail.com>,
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 50181] New: Memory usage doubles after more then 20 hours of uptime.
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:59:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A6D357.3070103@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121116111559.63ec1622.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 11/16/2012 11:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:34:00 -0800
> Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Anybody have ideas what to try next or want to poke holes in my
>> statistics? :)
>
> Maybe resurrect the below patch? It's probably six years old. It
> should allow us to find out who allocated those pages.
>
> Then perhaps we should merge the sucker this time.
I at least got the sucker recompiling. Not my finest work, but here goes:
http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/leak-20121113/pageowner_for_3.7-rc5.patch
It's not pretty, and probably needs to (at least) get moved over to
debugfs before getting merged, but it does appear to give some
reasonable output. Figured I'd post it in case anyone else wants to
give it a spin.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-50181-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2012-11-13 22:03 ` [Bug 50181] New: Memory usage doubles after more then 20 hours of uptime Andrew Morton
2012-11-13 23:04 ` Milos Jakovljevic
2012-11-15 14:05 ` Milos Jakovljevic
2012-11-15 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-15 23:11 ` Milos Jakovljevic
2012-11-16 18:34 ` Dave Hansen
2012-11-16 18:46 ` Milos Jakovljevic
2012-11-16 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-16 23:59 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2012-11-17 23:08 ` 3.7-rc6 memory accounting problem (manifests like a memory leak) Dave Hansen
2012-11-19 16:44 ` [Bug 50181] New: Memory usage doubles after more then 20 hours of uptime Dave Hansen
2012-11-16 2:51 ` Dave Hansen
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