From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx156.postini.com [74.125.245.156]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14A056B0070 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:59:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e3.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:59:24 -0500 Received: from d01relay03.pok.ibm.com (d01relay03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.235]) by d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D69C9003C for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:59:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay03.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id qAGNxMFg279892 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:59:22 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id qAGNxLgS024010 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:59:21 -0500 Message-ID: <50A6D357.3070103@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:59:19 -0800 From: Dave Hansen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Bug 50181] New: Memory usage doubles after more then 20 hours of uptime. References: <20121113140352.4d2db9e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1352988349.6409.4.camel@c2d-desktop.mypicture.info> <20121115141258.8e5cc669.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1353021103.6409.31.camel@c2d-desktop.mypicture.info> <50A68718.3070002@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121116111559.63ec1622.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121116111559.63ec1622.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Milos Jakovljevic , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On 11/16/2012 11:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:34:00 -0800 > Dave Hansen 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org