From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so295853fga.4 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:44:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6101e8c40802220844h2553051bw38154dbad91de1e3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:44:22 +0100 From: "Oliver Pinter" Subject: Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak In-Reply-To: <47BDEFB4.1010106@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6101e8c40802191018t668faf3avba9beeff34f7f853@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802201342y7e792e70lbd398f84a58a38bd@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802210821w626bc831uaf4c3f66fb097094@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802210825v534f0ce3wf80a18ebd6dee925@mail.gmail.com> <47BDEFB4.1010106@zytor.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Bart Van Assche , linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra List-ID: Hi! what is the patch name or git ID? On 2/21/08, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Oliver Pinter wrote: > >>> I have added a new graph to > >>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991, namely a graph > >>> showing memory usage for a PAE-kernel booted with mem=1G and with a > >>> minimized kernel config. The graph shows that memory usage increases > >>> to a certain limit. Other tests have shown that this limit is > >>> proportional to the amount of memory specified in mem=... This is not > >>> a SLAB leak: as the numbers show, slab usage remains constant during > >>> all tests. > >>> > >>> I'm puzzled by these results ... > >>> > > This sounds to me a lot like the quicklist PUD leak we had, which I > thought had been fixed in recent kernels... > > It would be useful to know: does this happen with UP at all? > > -hpa > -- Thanks, Oliver -- 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