From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261803AbVGEMDx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:03:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261811AbVGEMDx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:03:53 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:49611 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261803AbVGEMDv (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:03:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Memory leak with 2.6.12 and cdrecord From: Jens Axboe To: Patrick Plattes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aleksander Pavic In-Reply-To: <20050705113343.GA6349@erdbeere.net> References: <20050705113343.GA6349@erdbeere.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:06:45 +0200 Message-Id: <1120565206.12942.3.camel@linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:33 +0200, Patrick Plattes wrote: > Hi Ho :-), > > we have some trouble with the 2.6v kernel tree and CDRecord 2.01 (Debian > Sarge package). If we try to write an 150MB CD the memory fills up to > 150MB. The memory will not deallocate after closing cdrecord. Next if we > try to write an 200MB CD the memory will filled up to additional 50MB. > > We don't know which part of the software is steals our memory. This only > happens on 2.6, not on an 2.4 system and we can reproduce the bug only > on the asus notebook. > > We have tried to find the leak with top and slabtop, but inconclusively. I > put some information together. The informations are taken from the system > after burning a 154MB CD. Please have a look at: http://cdrecord.sourcecode.cc . > I uploaded the files to this address, to avoid high traffic on the lkml. Please post /proc/slabinfo as well. -- Jens Axboe