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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in net/wireless/scan.c
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:24:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247048686.4755.57.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247042784.6595.7.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>

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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 :)

johannes

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-07 17:04 Possible memory leak in net/wireless/scan.c Catalin Marinas
2009-07-07 17:12 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-07 21:29   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-07 21:47     ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-08  3:06 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-08  8:46   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-08 10:24     ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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