On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Valery Reznic <valery_rez...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately this is real problem: if you do something >> like >> while(true) { transfer } then application crashes and burns >> in hell :) > Are you sure that culprit is kernel ? > May be "transfer" part has memory leak ? > > Did you try to run it under valgrind ? > or run top ?
Well, I have to fix myself. Eventually memory is reclaimed. The "transfer" applications do not grow, while observed in top. The "transfer" applications are from standard Unix tool set, so while bugs are possible I personally blame Linus :). > >> Nondeterministically - guys researching this issue called >> it >> Heisenbug ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug ) . > Interesting reading, thanks. > > Valery. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il