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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:03:31 +0100
From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
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Subject: Re: "perf top -g" leaking ~300MB per second.
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On 2014.12.13 at 09:48 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Running "perf top -g" built from current Linus tree apparently leaks
> ~300MB of memory every second an my machine.

Hmm, this is a much older problem. I just noticed this the first time
today. 
To reproduce: Compile some application in the background (make -j4 in my
case) and run "perf top -g". Perf will continue to accumulate memory
until the system starts to swap and the OOM killer eventually kicks in.

-- 
Markus