Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-24 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > Just to follow up, did the problems go away when switching to ext3? > > The switch has been delayed. Up to now we just reboot the machine every > 48h - the administrator responsible for the machine is on holiday... > > Meanwhile, I noticed, that the latest release candidate has several > cha

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-23 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Hello Alexander, On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:41:15PM +0100, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > > > 881397 times: > > > > Page allocated via order 0 > > > > [0xc013962b] find_or_create_page+91 > > > > [0xf8aa9955] reiserfs_prepare_file_region_for_write+613 > > > > [0xf8aaa606] reiserfs_

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-23 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > > for one of the last results of /proc/page_owner. It seems to be > > > obvious that the memory-leak seems to be the first entry: > > > > > > $ less page_owner_sorted_20050314_0740.bz2 > > > 881397 times: > > > Page allocated via order 0 > > > [0xc013962b] find_or_create_page+9

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-17 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:58:12PM +0100, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > for one of the last results of /proc/page_owner. It seems to be > > obvious that the memory-leak seems to be the first entry: > > > > $ less page_owner_sorted_20050314_0740.bz2 > > 881397 times: > > Page allo

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-14 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > > See http://download.hennerich.de/kallsyms_20050312_1630.gz > > > > Great, just so that there is no confusion, I still need a new run > > of /proc/page_owner, the shorter time before the lockup the better. > > The machine locked up this morning again. See > > http://download.hennerich.d

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-14 Thread Timo Hennerich
Hello, my brother got ill this weekend, so I'll continue this task: > > See http://download.hennerich.de/kallsyms_20050312_1630.gz > > Great, just so that there is no confusion, I still need a new run > of /proc/page_owner, the shorter time before the lockup the better. The machine locked up th

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-12 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Rehi Alexander, On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > The next one here is how it looks when it is not so good: > [0xc013962b] find_or_create_page+91 > [0xc01596ac] grow_dev_page+44 > [0xc015986a] __getblk_slow+170 > [0xc0159c26] __getblk+54 > [0xf8ac0a57] +1207 > [0x

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-12 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> This is for example good complete trace: > [0xc0148b9a] do_anonymous_page+170 > [0xc0148cdb] do_no_page+75 > [0xc0149128] handle_mm_fault+264 > [0xc0113625] do_page_fault+501 > [0xc0104a7b] error_code+43 > > The next one here is how it looks when it is not so good: > [0xc013962b] find_or_create_

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-12 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > Yikes something isn't right with these backtraces that page_owner is > > showing. Even without frame pointers it shouldn't be this noisy. > > If you could send me some pointers to documents how to interpret > this output, i would appreciate it. The whole output indicates who has allocated who

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-12 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Hello, On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:23:40PM +0100, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > Yikes something isn't right with these backtraces that page_owner is > showing. Even without frame pointers it shouldn't be this noisy. If you could send me some pointers to documents how to interpret this output, i would

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-11 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > > Please grab 2.6.11, apply the below patch, set CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and > > > follow > > > the below instructions. > > > > thank you for you mails. We installed the patch from Alex on a test-system > > last night and will switch it to the production machine this evening. The > > problem will s

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-11 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Rehi, > > Please grab 2.6.11, apply the below patch, set CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and follow > > the below instructions. > > thank you for you mails. We installed the patch from Alex on a test-system > last night and will switch it to the production machine this evening. The > problem will start after 4

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-09 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Hello, On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:38:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > we kindly ask for some suggestions about how to trace a memory leak > > which we suspect in the linux kernel version 2.6: > > Please grab 2.6.11, apply the below patch, set CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and follow > the below instruc

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Tobias Hennerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we kindly ask for some suggestions about how to trace a memory leak > which we suspect in the linux kernel version 2.6: Please grab 2.6.11, apply the below patch, set CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and follow the below instructions. From: Alexander Nyberg <[

Re: Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-08 Thread Alexander Nyberg
[Sorry, I somehow didn't do reply-to-all in the first mail, lkml back] > > > Out of Memory: Killed process 29603 (cleanup). > > > > This looks to me like someone is leaking pages. Could you please try > > 2.6.11 and the patch I'm putting at the bottom of this mail, there'll be > > a CONFIG_PAGE_O

Strange memory leak in 2.6.x

2005-03-08 Thread Tobias Hennerich
Hi, we kindly ask for some suggestions about how to trace a memory leak which we suspect in the linux kernel version 2.6: The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 2500 (4GB RAM, Dual-PIII, AAC-raid and several e1000) running SUSE Pro 9.2 with different kernels (2.6.8-24.11-SMP from SUSE and no