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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, sancelot@free.fr
Subject: Re: detecting kernel mem leak
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:26:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48296CBD.9030904@wpkg.org> (raw)

> I kept my kernel running with few applications for 5 days , doing
> nothing more than backing up few kb of data on disk and refresh few X apps.
> 
> Ater five days the global memory available go down from 24Mb to 8Mb ...
> 
> The are some signifiant changes in slabinfo but now, I do not know where
> to search ?

Look at these values more closely - this is where your memory is "gone":


> MemFree:          24324 kB.................8692Kb
> Buffers:              3956   kB...............18740Kb


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-13 10:26 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-29  9:41 detecting kernel mem leak sancelot
2008-04-29 12:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-29 16:58   ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found]     ` <4821C526.8030901@free.fr>
2008-05-07 17:21       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-13  8:50         ` Stéphane ANCELOT
2008-05-13 19:45           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-15 10:58             ` Stéphane ANCELOT
2008-05-15 17:38           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-16  8:58             ` Stéphane ANCELOT
2008-05-16 18:50               ` Christoph Lameter

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