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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free pages leaking in 2.5.64?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:25:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030311162552.7f78e764.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1047376995.1692.23.camel@laptop-linux.cunninghams>

Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> 
> I've come across the following problem in 2.5.64. Here's example output.
> The header is one page - all messages only have a single call to
> get_zeroed_page between the printings and the same code works as

nr_free_pages() does not account for the pages in the per-cpu head arrays. 

You can make the numbers look right via drain_local_pages(), but that is only
100% reliable on uniprocessor with interrupts disabled.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-11 10:03 Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-12  0:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-12  0:50   ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-03-12  0:50   ` Nigel Cunningham

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