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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	alexn@dsv.su.se, kas@fi.muni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:17:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050128001701.D22695@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050127123326.2eafab35.davem@davemloft.net>; from davem@davemloft.net on Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:33:26PM -0800

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:33:26PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> So they won't be listed in /proc/net/rt_cache (since they've been
> removed from the lookup table) but they will be accounted for in
> /proc/net/stat/rt_cache until the final release is done on the
> routing cache object and it can be completely freed up.
> 
> Do you happen to be using IPV6 in any way by chance?

Yes.  Someone suggested this evening that there may have been a recent
change to do with some IPv6 refcounting which may have caused this
problem.  Is that something you can confirm?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-28  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050121161959.GO3922@fi.muni.cz>
     [not found] ` <1106360639.15804.1.camel@boxen>
     [not found]   ` <20050123091154.GC16648@suse.de>
     [not found]     ` <20050123011918.295db8e8.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]       ` <20050123095608.GD16648@suse.de>
     [not found]         ` <20050123023248.263daca9.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-01-23 20:03           ` Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? Russell King
2005-01-24 11:48             ` Russell King
2005-01-25 19:32               ` Russell King
2005-01-27  8:28                 ` Russell King
2005-01-27  8:47                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-27 10:19                     ` Alessandro Suardi
2005-01-27 12:17                     ` Martin Josefsson
2005-01-27 12:56                     ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-27 13:03                       ` Robert Olsson
2005-01-27 16:49                       ` Russell King
2005-01-27 18:37                         ` Phil Oester
2005-01-27 19:25                           ` Russell King
2005-01-27 20:40                             ` Phil Oester
2005-01-28  9:32                               ` Russell King
2005-01-27 20:33                         ` David S. Miller
2005-01-28  0:17                           ` Russell King [this message]
2005-01-28  0:34                             ` David S. Miller
2005-01-28  8:58                               ` Russell King
2005-01-30 13:23                                 ` Russell King
2005-01-30 15:34                                   ` Russell King
2005-01-30 16:57                                     ` Phil Oester
2005-01-30 17:23                                   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-30 17:26                                     ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-30 17:58                                       ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-30 18:45                                         ` Russell King
2005-01-31  2:48                                         ` David S. Miller
2005-01-31  4:11                                         ` Herbert Xu
2005-01-31  4:45                                           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-01-31  5:00                                             ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-31  5:11                                               ` David S. Miller
2005-01-31  5:40                                                 ` Herbert Xu
2005-01-31  5:16                                               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-01-31  5:42                                                 ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
2005-01-30 18:01                                       ` Russell King
2005-01-30 18:19                                         ` Phil Oester
2005-01-28  1:41                             ` Phil Oester

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