From: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: -rc3 leaking NOT BIO [Was: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?]
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:57:40 -0500
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On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:38 pm, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:52 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > So it's probably an ndiswrapper bug?
> >
> > Andrew,
> > It looks like it is a kernel bug triggered by NdisWrapper. Without
> > NdisWrapper, and with just 8139too plus some light network activity the
> > size-64 grew from ~ 1100 to 4500 overnight. Is this normal? I will keep
> > it running to see where it goes.

[OT]

Didn't wanted to keep this hanging - It turned out to be a strange ndiswrapper 
bug - It seems that the other OS in question allows the following without a 
leak ;) -
ptr =Allocate(...);
ptr = Allocate(...);
:
repeat this zillion times without ever fearing that 'ptr' will leak..

I sent a fix to ndiswrapper-general mailing list on sourceforge if any one is 
using ndiswrapper and having a similar problem.

Parag
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