From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bug 6688] Memory allocation problem Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:24:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20060620002433.28115714.akpm@osdl.org> References: <200606200646.k5K6k8Z3009667@fire-2.osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:2178 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965115AbWFTHYf (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:24:35 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5K7OXgt012036 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:24:34 -0700 Received: from box (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id k5K7OX4a032198 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:24:33 -0700 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200606200646.k5K6k8Z3009667@fire-2.osdl.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:46:08 -0700 bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6688 This is looking like a net memory leak in 2.6.16. 1/3rd is in ip_fib_alias and 2/3rds is in size-64. I've asked the reporter to apply the leak detector patch so we can find out who is using the size-64 part.