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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.6.7, ia64] continual memory leak at ~102kB/s...
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:44:18PM +0200, Daniel Blueman wrote:
> When running 2.6.7 on a generic ia64 system, I see memory being leaked in
> the kernel. Most of the fancy (preempt, hot-plug procs, ...) features are
> disabled, and the system in a quiescent state [1].
> /proc/meminfo shows the memory as unaccounted for [2], so it seems likely it
> has been kmalloc()d somehere. A small script shows memory disappearing at
> 102kB/s [3].
> Anyone else seen this on ia64?

Could you dump /proc/slabinfo?


-- wli