Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757438AbYBSLBQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:01:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752211AbYBSLBB (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:01:01 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.229]:10405 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751997AbYBSLBA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:01:00 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=AZVcZ6zQVDl77+JoTEK9n+fYy538uWPxzx61Gnc4cVHSNYaKkHFZkjUdfdGSlju6o55TUo0WzPhkt2jrRhten4OS4dcU03Hvfsy3xPQ9oovTfnJ9aEyRQD1lS5/it9OjW0XQSKmxNp5rb3930W+U2oNQS6G6+UKWLwSQJVM1UQk= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:00:58 +0100 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: SMP-related kernel memory leak MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 16 Hello, I noticed that the amount of memory used by the Linux kernel steadily increases over time on SMP systems (x86 architecture, 32-bit kernel). This problem disappears when I add maxcpus=1 to the kernel command line. I have observed this behavior both on the 2.6.22.18 and 2.6.24.2 kernels. Did anyone notice anything similar ? See also: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991 Bart Van Assche. -- 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/