From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Oester Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:41:39 -0800 Message-ID: <20050128014139.GA16371@linuxace.com> References: <20050123023248.263daca9.akpm@osdl.org> <20050123200315.A25351@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050124114853.A16971@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050125193207.B30094@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050127082809.A20510@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050127004732.5d8e3f62.akpm@osdl.org> <16888.58622.376497.380197@robur.slu.se> <20050127164918.C3036@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050127123326.2eafab35.davem@davemloft.net> <20050128001701.D22695@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" , 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050128001701.D22695@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:17:01AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > 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? FWIW, I do not use IPv6, and it is not compiled into the kernel. Phil