Re: Possible memory leak in net/wireless/scan.c

Johannes Berg
2009-07-08T10:32:23Z

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On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 09:46 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> Anyway, I run it from some ARM embedded systems at ~200MHz and 256MB of
> RAM to dual core x86 at 2GHz with 3GB of RAM. I also ran it on quemu in
> the past (but, well, in the embedded world I'm pretty used with
> emulators taking 10 min to boot the kernel).

:)

> But it can slow things down since it tracks every memory allocation and
> it needs to look up the pointer in an rb tree.

It was so slow I gave up after a while. But then my real purpose was
testing something, not waiting for kmemleak, so I guess I just didn't
wait long enough :)