Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161346AbWKUVTJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:19:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161359AbWKUVTJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:19:09 -0500 Received: from relay.rinet.ru ([195.54.192.35]:36823 "EHLO relay.rinet.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161346AbWKUVTF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:19:05 -0500 Message-ID: <45636D31.7020506@mail.ru> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:18:41 +0300 From: Michael Raskin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0a1 (X11/20060809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1-mm1+ memory problem References: <45614A95.6090102@mail.ru> <20061121003745.aeda4f7c.akpm@osdl.org> <4563485B.3050801@mail.ru> <20061121114543.817fc06e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061121114543.817fc06e.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (relay.rinet.ru [195.54.192.35]); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:18:58 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 23 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:41:31 +0300 > Michael Raskin wrote: Sorry for leaving lkml out of "To: " in previous post. > Can you try to determine exactly which activity causes this to happen? In > particular, is it due to the X server? If so, does any particular client > cause it to happen? Things which use 3d? You were right, it's not because of personally X, but because of environment I use. Simplest example of reproducing code: while true; do free | cat &>/dev/null; done Looks like minimum (except of &>/dev/null not to involve console/xterm output - leaks well without it too). - 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/