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From: "Jan-Simon Möller" <dl9pf@gmx.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] memory leak in dm
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:15:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710161415.13018.dl9pf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071016113800.GA4631@luggage>

Am Dienstag 16 Oktober 2007 13:38:00 schrieb Kristof Provost:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing a serious memory leak whenever I use my /home partition.
> It's an encrypted partition using dm-crypt. Simply running
> 'stress -d 5' is enough to exhaust the memory in a few minutes.

Same setup here - I can confirm the leak. Happened here while compiling latest 
kernel while using the previous build. Over 1GB "vanished" :D ... Now i'm 
back to the default kernel.

I'll apply the patch now and report.

Greets
Jan-Simon


      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16 11:38 [BUG] memory leak in dm Kristof Provost
2007-10-16 11:44 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-16 13:23   ` Jan-Simon Möller
2007-10-16 15:12     ` Kristof Provost
2007-10-17  8:11       ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-16 12:15 ` Jan-Simon Möller [this message]

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