From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47BDEFB4.1010106@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:40:04 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak References: <6101e8c40802191018t668faf3avba9beeff34f7f853@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802201342y7e792e70lbd398f84a58a38bd@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802210821w626bc831uaf4c3f66fb097094@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802210825v534f0ce3wf80a18ebd6dee925@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6101e8c40802210825v534f0ce3wf80a18ebd6dee925@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Oliver Pinter Cc: Bart Van Assche , linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra List-ID: Oliver Pinter wrote: >>> I have added a new graph to >>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991, namely a graph >>> showing memory usage for a PAE-kernel booted with mem=1G and with a >>> minimized kernel config. The graph shows that memory usage increases >>> to a certain limit. Other tests have shown that this limit is >>> proportional to the amount of memory specified in mem=... This is not >>> a SLAB leak: as the numbers show, slab usage remains constant during >>> all tests. >>> >>> I'm puzzled by these results ... >>> This sounds to me a lot like the quicklist PUD leak we had, which I thought had been fixed in recent kernels... It would be useful to know: does this happen with UP at all? -hpa -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org