Re: Change eats memory on my server

[Christian König]

Am 18.01.21 um 08:49 schrieb Eli Cohen:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 08:43:12AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> > Hi Eli,
> >
> > have you already tried using kmemleak?
> >
> > This sounds like a leak of memory allocated using kmalloc(), so kmemleak
> > should be able to catch it.
> Hi Christian,
>
> I have the following configured but I did not see any visible complaint
> in dmesg.
>
> CONFIG_HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE=16000
>
> Any other configuration that I need to set?

As long as you don't have any kernel parameters to enable it I think you 
need to do "echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak" to start a scan.

The result can then be queried using "cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak".

Regards,
Christian.