From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261480AbUCDGlF (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:41:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261496AbUCDGlF (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:41:05 -0500 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:29842 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261480AbUCDGlB (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:41:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:10:49 +0530 From: Dipankar Sarma To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll SMP memory leak ? Message-ID: <20040304064048.GA4155@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: dipankar@in.ibm.com References: <1078378468.22198.10.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1078378468.22198.10.camel@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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