Bug#561890: lenny kernel memory leak?
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:59:33AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
> > To: Debian kernel team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
> > Subject: Re: lenny kernel memory leak?
> > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:53:35 +0200
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:30:54PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > Try c95edf5432f097c926dd3f59239ecde80da3b214 "rt2x00: Properly clean up
> > > beacon skbs."
> >
> > With this I got kernel panics at boot when loading the modules. Maybe it
> > depends on some other patches.
> >
> > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7087a828f8714e464fff18d93618727530dfd89;hp=5adf6d63c1697ce1835daf2b5393488a71ee0dca
> >
> > This is now in. Will see if it makes any difference in a few days.
>
> Did it fix the issue?
Well, I think above is the only patch I have added to the kernel. Slab has
been slowly increasing but no OOM so far, so I would say yes, it fixed the
issue:
Mon Dec 21 00:45:53 EET 2009
Slab: 4088 kB
Mon Dec 21 00:46:13 EET 2009
Slab: 4120 kB
Mon Dec 21 00:46:34 EET 2009
Slab: 4108 kB
Mon Dec 21 00:46:54 EET 2009
Slab: 4136 kB
Mon Dec 21 00:47:14 EET 2009
Slab: 4220 kB
Mon Dec 21 00:47:34 EET 2009
Slab: 4200 kB
...
Thu May 6 09:02:18 EEST 2010
Slab: 7376 kB
Thu May 6 09:02:39 EEST 2010
Slab: 7368 kB
Thu May 6 09:02:59 EEST 2010
Slab: 7268 kB
Thu May 6 09:03:19 EEST 2010
Slab: 7168 kB
Thu May 6 09:03:39 EEST 2010
Slab: 7168 kB
Thu May 6 09:03:59 EEST 2010
Slab: 7192 kB
Thu May 6 09:04:19 EEST 2010
Slab: 7152 kB
$ uptime
09:05:12 up 136 days, 7:42, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.16, 0.05
Cheers,
-Mikko
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