Re: more debugging enabled in rawhide kernels.

2009-06-25 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:08:40PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: In tomorrows rawhide kernel, I've enabled a debugging option called kmemleak. As the name suggests, this tracks memory allocations, and prints backtraces in cases where the memory is believed to be lost. As a general comment, I see

Re: more debugging enabled in rawhide kernels.

2009-06-25 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:53:27PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:08:40PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: In tomorrows rawhide kernel, I've enabled a debugging option called kmemleak. As the name suggests, this tracks memory allocations, and prints backtraces in

Re: more debugging enabled in rawhide kernels.

2009-06-25 Thread Clemens Eisserer
It has a horrible impact at least on Intel's driver performance. I've run some benchmarks, which show half the performance. This could be due to the update to 2.8.0 or due to debugging enabled. - Clemens 2009/6/25 Dave Jones da...@redhat.com: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:53:27PM +0100, Richard

Re: more debugging enabled in rawhide kernels.

2009-06-24 Thread Warren Togami
On 06/24/2009 08:08 PM, Dave Jones wrote: In tomorrows rawhide kernel, I've enabled a debugging option called kmemleak. As the name suggests, this tracks memory allocations, and prints backtraces in cases where the memory is believed to be lost. Things of note: - This tracking doesn't come for