From: <kaustav.majumdar@wipro.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Memory Leak Detection and Kernel Memory monitoring tool
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:43:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05B7784238A51247A0A9FB4B348CECAE01D7686A@PNE-HJN-MBX01.wipro.com> (raw)
Hi,
My team is developing a device driver for a PCMCIA based USB device. We're currently trying to test the performance of our driver. However we're unable to figure out a reliable method of detecting memory leaks caused by our driver code. Neither have we been able to find a tool which shows % utilization of kernel memory used by our driver. I suppose applying kmemleak patch is a good way of detecting these leaks. But there is no patch available for kernel 2.6.15.4 (on fedora core 4).
About the memory monitoring, there are quite a few tools available at the application level (like free and top which are available with the operating system itself). But none for the kernel level.
Please suggest other feasible ways of detecting leaks and monitoring kernel memory utilization.
Regards
Kaustav Majumdar
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2006-06-16 10:13 ` kaustav.majumdar [this message]
2006-06-16 11:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-06-16 11:39 kaustav.majumdar
2006-06-16 12:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-16 12:48 ` Pekka Enberg
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