[patch] Re: massive memory leak in 2.3.23?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:03:33 +0200 (CEST)

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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> Is anyone else seeing a rather serious leak in 2.3.23? I just got
> IKD running and was doing some testing when suddenly the box went
> terminal OOM. Memleak says it's pte_alloc()'ed memory being leaked.

thanks for the info, does the attached patch fix the leak?

-- mingo

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