From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36747 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753122Ab0LPKrZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:47:25 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTBMq-0002nj-NA for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:47:24 +0100 Received: from proxyext.iabg.de ([proxyext.iabg.de]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:47:24 +0100 Received: from pommnitz by proxyext.iabg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:47:24 +0100 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: jpo234 Subject: Re: Netlink Memory Leak Issue Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Saurabh8 Jain writes: > Where is this memory getting free? Do I need to free this memory? > > When I executed iw commands to set few values in loop. I saw there is drop in free memory of "top" command. I am > working on compatwireless-2010-06-27. Do you really think that a perceived memory leak in libnl could explain this? This can't be true. If you run iw in a shell loop it will terminate after every invocation and the kernel will free all associated resources. Regards Joerg