Re: 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll SMP memory leak ?

From: Dipankar Sarma (dipankar_at_in.ibm.com)
Date: 03/04/04

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    Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:10:49 +0530
    To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    
    

    Peter,

    On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:34:28AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
    > I'm running said kernel, and after 5 days I've noticed that all my
    > memory is gone. Even if I quit every possible application there is
    > still 600MB+ gone, not in buffers/cache but just used, and no app to
    > show for it.
    >
    > I append my current uname,top and lsmod output (while writing this mail)
    > and as one can see I'm lucky if the RES column adds up to 150m.
    >
    > is there some way to see how much memory the kernel uses for its
    > internal structures and then maybe pinpoint the leak?
    >
    > Kind regards,
    >
    > Peter Zijlstra
    >
    >
    >
    > Linux ####### 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll #1 SMP Fri Feb 27 09:32:12 CET 2004 i686
    > AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

    What is 2.6.3-mm4-rcu_ll ? AFAIK, there is no such tree.
    Is it vanilla 2.6.3-mm4 or it has some other patches in it ? If
    it has other patches, what are those ? Pointers ? Code ?

    Dipankar
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