Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262196AbVBQCoP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:44:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbVBQCoP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:44:15 -0500 Received: from salazar.rnl.ist.utl.pt ([193.136.164.251]:56255 "EHLO admin.rnl.ist.utl.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262196AbVBQCoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:44:08 -0500 Message-ID: <421404F3.5030502@arrakis.dhis.org> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 02:44:03 +0000 From: Pedro Venda User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Venda Cc: Noel Maddy , Parag Warudkar , LKML Subject: Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12 References: <4213D70F.20104@arrakis.dhis.org> <200502161835.26047.kernel-stuff@comcast.net> <4213DF19.10209@arrakis.dhis.org> <20050217003846.GA5615@uglybox.localnet> <4213EA7F.4070107@arrakis.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <4213EA7F.4070107@arrakis.dhis.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1809 Lines: 63 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pedro Venda wrote: | Noel Maddy wrote: | | On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:02:33AM +0000, Pedro Venda wrote: | | | | | |>admin proc # cat slabinfo | | | | ... | | | |>biovec-1 74224 74354 16 226 1 : tunables 120 | 60 0 : | slabdata 329 329 0 | |>bio 74212 74237 64 61 1 : tunables 120 | 60 0 : | slabdata 1217 1217 0 | | | | | | If you're using md, you need this patch to fix a bio leak: | | | | http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/drivers/md/md.c@1.234 | | thanks. | | has this patch been included in the recent rc's? | | and howcome the other servers work normally [all with md]? at least so | far the | memory usages aren't concerning, although the linear increase is | starting to | show. perhaps the [different] apps running on them don't expose the leak | as well | the one that broke today... is that reasonable? correction: after looking at /proc/slabinfo, the counters around the bio lines are 10-100 times bigger than all the other, so their also leaking. I read some discussion on this list around this issue and people were not positive the leak came from md... any comments? regards. - -- Pedro Jo?o Lopes Venda email: pjvenda@arrakis.dhis.org http://arrakis.dhis.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCFATzeRy7HWZxjWERApHtAKDsX1UVnKP1JICe1/RrzuzF00P84QCfac4+ Mtxq0Y31MFhdsIgBf5S0n/Y= =u/li -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/