From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Srikumar Subramanian <SrikumarS@ami.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, SrikumarS@ami.com, BoopathiV@ami.com
Subject: Re: memory leak in call_usermodehelper()
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 03:20:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031230032008.0783d4e8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CCBDD5583C50E4196F012E79439B45C0568D7F0@atl-ms1.megatrends.com>
Srikumar Subramanian <SrikumarS@ami.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> >From my customized system call, I merely call call_usermodehelper() to spawn
> a process. When I call my_system_call around 1000 times in order to spawn
> 'hello world' program, I noticed in 'top' program that system has lost 200
> KB of free memory.
> I just increased the iteration to 700000, I lost the entire 128 MB free
> memory from my system and eventually the system is freezed.
>
What version of the kernel were you using?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-30 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-30 7:32 memory leak in call_usermodehelper() Srikumar Subramanian
2003-12-30 11:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2003-12-30 17:14 Srikumar Subramanian
2003-12-31 5:22 Srikumar Subramanian
2003-12-31 12:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-31 19:43 Srikumar Subramanian
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