Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:03:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:03:35 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:46835 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:03:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:04:17 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Alan Cox Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo , MrChuoi , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 Message-ID: <20020319180417.GP2254@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Zwane Mwaikambo , MrChuoi , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:32:13PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > actually been *allocated* as per requests, but not necesserily in use? > > This one is my home box, looks a bit crazy don't you think? The box has > > Yes > > > about ~120 processes right now, heavy X session (2000x2000@32 virtual, > > KDE2 with lots of eye candy), two kernel builds in the background and > > cdrecord. > > I'm chasing a leak or two somewhere. One common theme seems to be KDE so > my guess is there is something like an mprotect/mremap/shared page path that > isnt correctly accounted and kde triggers more than most other stuff (eg > because of the strange way KDE execs new processes). > > Last night I added some validator code for the non shmfs cases to see if > I can find it. Hmm, you must have missed my report I sent to you earlier. After a fresh reboot, I booted into the console (no X/kde started) and ran the while looped kernel compile for a couple days. Then I switched to single user mode to see if the address space was recovered, but it was not. Is there any way (I don't thing so, but...) that KDE can affect this when there aren't any KDE processes running? Mike - 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/