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Subject: Re: 2.5.66: task_struct memory leak?
From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
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commence  Russell King quotation:

> I'm seeing memory disappear at a rate of 8K / process, which seems to
> suggest that the ARM level 1 page tables aren't getting freed either.
>
> Is anyone seeing this type of behaviour on x86?

Running 2.5.66 (plus Ingo Molnar's sched-2.5.66-A2), and I don't seem
to see a growth in the task_struct slab after repeated forking:

$ grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo ; for i in $(seq 1000) ; do /bin/true ; done ; grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo
task_struct           79     80   1552   16   16    2 :   54   27
task_struct           79     80   1552   16   16    2 :   54   27

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