Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753901AbYBTH2B (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:28:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750834AbYBTH1w (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:27:52 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.228]:38017 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750699AbYBTH1v (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:27:51 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=joNUXtsbeBzQWZNYT1YVxsTS8MUVcqItAyBYWj293/M/HB5i6GL2xZnTxNcUXilC+6ImLKjM3KxKjyvP2YXe7xG7E/EEaWMLeR469e2vcpBaR81p5uSNLDgZ3QAPqdiN4w+dfF3xvyMr0FSWUlgtdjYnLICZZaAkY/l7mRlvbvg= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:27:48 +0100 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Oliver Pinter" Subject: Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <6101e8c40802191018t668faf3avba9beeff34f7f853@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6101e8c40802191018t668faf3avba9beeff34f7f853@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 24 On Feb 19, 2008 7:18 PM, Oliver Pinter wrote: > On 2/19/08, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > 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 > > this patch fixed them http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/405 ? Thanks for the hint. If I interpreted the 2.6.24 changelog correctly this patch is already included with 2.6.24 ? The problem still occurs with 2.6.24.2. I am currently trying to find the minimal kernel config which still triggers this problem. Any other hints for finding the cause of this issue are welcome of course. 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/