Re: lenny kernel memory leak?

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:05:08AM +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Since then I have switched system shell from bash to dash, shut down a few
> non-essential services and mounted all fs with noatime. These have helped a
> bit but I still see slab growing about 1 mb in day.
> 
> $ uptime
>  08:01:02 up 2 days, 17:35,  3 users,  load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.06
> $ grep Slab /proc/meminfo 
> Slab:             6448 kB

# uptime
 10:42:01 up 5 days, 20:16,  5 users,  load average: 2.09, 1.45, 1.17
# grep Slab /proc/meminfo 
Slab:            16600 kB

So I'll start testing a few patches to lenny kernel. I guess these two are
good candidates:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7087a828f8714e464fff18d93618727530dfd89;hp=5adf6d63c1697ce1835daf2b5393488a71ee0dca

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f3e63a55b1a7b695a79bf3eec2ff5ab6b336037;hp=9381be059bf5831d259e8735005cfa35b7488543

-Mikko