From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll SMP memory leak ?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:10:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040304064048.GA4155@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078378468.22198.10.camel@twins>
Peter,
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:34:28AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I'm running said kernel, and after 5 days I've noticed that all my
> memory is gone. Even if I quit every possible application there is
> still 600MB+ gone, not in buffers/cache but just used, and no app to
> show for it.
>
> I append my current uname,top and lsmod output (while writing this mail)
> and as one can see I'm lucky if the RES column adds up to 150m.
>
> is there some way to see how much memory the kernel uses for its
> internal structures and then maybe pinpoint the leak?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Peter Zijlstra
>
>
>
> Linux ####### 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll #1 SMP Fri Feb 27 09:32:12 CET 2004 i686
> AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
What is 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll ? AFAIK, there is no such tree.
Is it vanilla 2.6.3-mm4 or it has some other patches in it ? If
it has other patches, what are those ? Pointers ? Code ?
Dipankar
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2004-03-04 5:34 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll SMP memory leak ? Peter Zijlstra
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