Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760789AbXJPMP0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:15:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755501AbXJPMPO (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:15:14 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54936 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755020AbXJPMPM (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:15:12 -0400 X-Authenticated: #7313500 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+E/yZFBY6Eu1oPWjNaB9N3Dl+Gpf3GV5vcvTkVmG asXvOShUjzw55i From: Jan-Simon =?utf-8?q?M=C3=B6ller?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] memory leak in dm Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:15:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) References: <20071016113800.GA4631@luggage> In-Reply-To: <20071016113800.GA4631@luggage> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710161415.13018.dl9pf@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 21 Am Dienstag 16 Oktober 2007 13:38:00 schrieb Kristof Provost: > Hi, > > I'm seeing a serious memory leak whenever I use my /home partition. > It's an encrypted partition using dm-crypt. Simply running > 'stress -d 5' is enough to exhaust the memory in a few minutes. Same setup here - I can confirm the leak. Happened here while compiling latest kernel while using the previous build. Over 1GB "vanished" :D ... Now i'm back to the default kernel. I'll apply the patch now and report. Greets Jan-Simon - 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/