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

[Catalin Marinas]

Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 14:00:51 Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> You might want to try out the built-in kernel memory leak detector.
>> See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for details how to enable it and use
>> it.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I will have to try it out once but not this time :)
> because 2.6.34-rc7 seems to be fine, or in other words not leaking.

You could just enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK on 2.6.33, mount the debugfs
and do a 'cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak' after a half-hour or so.

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Catalin
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