Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261345AbVA1AUi (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:20:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261353AbVA1AUL (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:20:11 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:6162 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261345AbVA1ARS (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:17:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:17:01 +0000 From: Russell King To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, alexn@dsv.su.se, kas@fi.muni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? Message-ID: <20050128001701.D22695@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: "David S. Miller" , Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, alexn@dsv.su.se, kas@fi.muni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com References: <20050123095608.GD16648@suse.de> <20050123023248.263daca9.akpm@osdl.org> <20050123200315.A25351@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050124114853.A16971@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050125193207.B30094@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050127082809.A20510@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050127004732.5d8e3f62.akpm@osdl.org> <16888.58622.376497.380197@robur.slu.se> <20050127164918.C3036@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050127123326.2eafab35.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050127123326.2eafab35.davem@davemloft.net>; from davem@davemloft.net on Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:33:26PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 22 On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:33:26PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > So they won't be listed in /proc/net/rt_cache (since they've been > removed from the lookup table) but they will be accounted for in > /proc/net/stat/rt_cache until the final release is done on the > routing cache object and it can be completely freed up. > > Do you happen to be using IPV6 in any way by chance? Yes. Someone suggested this evening that there may have been a recent change to do with some IPv6 refcounting which may have caused this problem. Is that something you can confirm? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/