Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:14:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Ariel <askernel2615@dsgml.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 09:16 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:13 -0500, Ariel wrote:

>>>>> I have a memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache.

>>>> does this happen without the binary nvidia driver too? (it appears
>>>> you're using that). That's a good datapoint to have if so...

> please repeat this without nvidia ever being loaded. Just having a
> module loaded before can already cause corruption that ripples through
> later, so just unloading is not enough to get a clean result.

I rebooted without nvidia or vmware ever being loaded and got a 
leak of 1.12KB/s. So I think we can rule that out.

A commonality I'm noticing is SATA. SATA had a big update in this 
version, so perhaps that's where to start looking.

 	-Ariel
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