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From: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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Subject: Re: swapoff/on leak test12-pre7
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Stumbled over a small leak.. and some funny looking numbers.

Numbers aren't funny looking.. bad eyeballs.

> while true; do swapoff -a; swapon -a; done

<snip vmstat of leak>

Leak is because the page allocated in swapon has buffers.  Since
it's not on any list, they never get scrubbed off and the page is
leaked.  (I killed it here with try_to_free_buffers().. works)

	-Mike

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