Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:31:03PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:51, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > If somebody could fix the kernel CVS I could have a look at the > > interesting changesets between 2.6.11-rc1-bk8 and 2.6.11-rc2. > > What's not okay? I already prepared

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:51, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > If somebody could fix the kernel CVS I could have a look at the > interesting changesets between 2.6.11-rc1-bk8 and 2.6.11-rc2. What's not okay? -- Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:45:47PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:19:24PM +1100, Andrew Tridgell wrote: > > The problem I've hit now is a severe memory leak. I have applied the > > patch from Linus for the leak in free_pipe_info(), and still I'm > > leaking memory at the r

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Tridgell wrote: Andrew, > So what you should do before generating the leak tool output is to put > heavy memory pressure on the machine to try to get it to free up as much of > that pagecache as possible. bzero(malloc(lots)) will do it - create a real > swapstorm, then do swapoff to kil

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew Tridgell
Andrew, > So what you should do before generating the leak tool output is to put > heavy memory pressure on the machine to try to get it to free up as much of > that pagecache as possible. bzero(malloc(lots)) will do it - create a real > swapstorm, then do swapoff to kill remaining swapcache

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Tridgell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying the little leak tracking patch from Alexander Nyberg now. > > Here are the results (only backtraces with more than 10k counts > included). The leak was at 1G of memory at the time I ran this, so its > safe to say 10k page allocations

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Tridgell
> I'm trying the little leak tracking patch from Alexander Nyberg now. Here are the results (only backtraces with more than 10k counts included). The leak was at 1G of memory at the time I ran this, so its safe to say 10k page allocations ain't enough to explain it :-) I also attach a hacked ver

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:19:24PM +1100, Andrew Tridgell wrote: > The problem I've hit now is a severe memory leak. I have applied the > patch from Linus for the leak in free_pipe_info(), and still I'm > leaking memory at the rate of about 100Mbyte/minute. > I've tested with both 2.6.11-rc2 an

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Tridgell
Randy, > I have applied the patch from Linus for the leak in > free_pipe_info() ... > Do you have today's memleak patch applied? (cut-n-paste below). yes :-) I'm trying the little leak tracking patch from Alexander Nyberg now. Cheers, Tridge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-24 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Andrew Tridgell wrote: I've fixed up the problems I had with raid, and am now testing the recent xattr changes with dbench and nbench. The problem I've hit now is a severe memory leak. I have applied the patch from Linus for the leak in free_pipe_info(), and still I'm leaking memory at the rate of

memory leak in 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Tridgell
I've fixed up the problems I had with raid, and am now testing the recent xattr changes with dbench and nbench. The problem I've hit now is a severe memory leak. I have applied the patch from Linus for the leak in free_pipe_info(), and still I'm leaking memory at the rate of about 100Mbyte/minute.