Re: lenny kernel memory leak?

[Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:56:27AM +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:03:12PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I'm not aware of such a bug, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
> > Please note that the rt2500 driver is not part of the kernel package,
> > which instead provides the rt2500pci driver.  Have you tried using
> > rt2500pci instead?
> 
> Actually I'm using rt2500pci. Full module list below.
> 
> > The strongest evidence is that the 'slab' (kernel heap) size grows
> > hugely.  The 'anonpages' size shrinking shows that this is squeezing
> > user programs into swap.
> 
> Ok, slab did grow big compared to ram size. If I see this again I'll try
> compiling the kernel with additional debug options. I think at least
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB would help.
I havn't worked with it, but maybe CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK will help, too.

Best regards
Uwe

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