Re: 2.6.33.2 kmalloc-8 slab leaks ~512 objects per second

From: Jerome Glisse
Date: Wed May 12 2010 - 09:29:22 EST


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 11:38:05 Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > I think it is DRM (radeon) related, leak stopped when I closed all X
> > programs. I am compiling 2.6.33.3 right now and will soon reboot into it.
>
> Leak is still present in 2.6.33.3 - the more GUI activity the more it leaks.
> So the ~512 objects per second was with xosview running, but moving windows or
> browsing through menus can leak a lot more (per second).
>
> Is version of userspace drm library interesting? It is 2.4.20
> (libdrm-2.4.20-12.1.x86_64).
>
> Tvrtko
>

Do the number of object stay constant over longuer period of time
(30min, 1hour) ? If there was a leak i think we would have notice
it by now, some of my desktop are running 24h for several days with
radeon kms.

Cheers,
Jerome
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