From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Dow, Benjamin" <bdow@itouchcom.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'Rik van Riel'" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: kernel memory leak?
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:54:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021008225400.GA889@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19EE6EC66973A5408FBE4CB7772F6F0A046A39@ltnmail.xyplex.com>
Hi!
> I sent this out yesterday, and never got a reply. Normally, I'd be far more
> patient, but I'm afraid that by now people have forgotten about it, and I'm
> under a LOT of pressure by management to get this fixed soon.
>
> To recap my previous e-mail, every time I access a file, 4k of memory gets
> allocated, and never gets freed, to the point of eventually triggering the
> OOM killer. I don't know nearly enough about the VM to debug this myself,
> so even a pointer to where to start looking would be helpful.
Write C code to reproduce this on normal machine, and post it to
bugtraq (its DoS, after all). Pretty aggresive but sure to get fixed
*fast*.
The same without going bugtraq should suffice, through.
Pavel
--
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 18:16 Dow, Benjamin
2002-10-08 22:54 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-10-11 8:54 ` Nicholas Hockey
2002-10-11 8:58 ` Nicholas Hockey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-17 16:53 Kernel " Andreas Rieke
2006-07-17 18:28 ` Michal Piotrowski
2002-10-10 18:09 kernel " Dow, Benjamin
2002-10-10 16:31 Manfred Spraul
2002-10-10 14:32 Dow, Benjamin
2002-10-07 21:58 Dow, Benjamin
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