From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Hensema Subject: Re: 2.6.0: something is leaking memory Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:59:34 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040106155933.GA3373@bender.home.hensema.net> References: <20040104204834.40b6ca51.davem@redhat.com> Reply-To: erik@hensema.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040104204834.40b6ca51.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:48:34PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:30:21 -0800 (PST) > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > You've got 19 _megabytes_ allocated to "tcp6_sock", and they are all > > marked as "active". That's almost certainly the leaking bug. > > > > Everything else looks reasonably normal. > ... > > David? > > Fixed by changeset 1.1496.16.1 which is in 2.6.1-rc1 The leak seems to be in 2.6.1-rc1 too and I can't find any IPv6 related fixes wrt memory in the long format changelog of 2.6.1-rc1. David: are you sure it was fixed in rc1? It doesn't seem to be in -rc2 either. This is after 26 hours uptime: tcp6_sock 6246 6248 1024 4 1 : tunables 54 27 0 : slabdata 1562 1562 0 -- Erik Hensema (erik@hensema.net)