From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261186AbTIXGQ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:16:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261303AbTIXGQ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:16:59 -0400 Received: from cube1.cubit.at ([80.78.231.68]:53941 "EHLO cube1.cubit.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261186AbTIXGQ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:16:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:16:57 +0200 From: Peter-Paul Witta To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: strange memleak, alsa driver hickup? Message-ID: <20030924061657.GA11738@cube1.cubit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi, please point me to a FAQ if this is solved... I run 2.4.20 (still) and had a strange problem. as of a uptime of 72 days my PC got strange. the memory was completely full (as shown by free, top,...) even if no user procs ran. i restarted X but probably these leaks have to do something with xine (Xv, Framebuffer?). additional to this memleak there was a strange audio problem with my via82xx ALSA driver: the more the mem leak grew the worse the sound output got. high frequencies where cut out, low frequencies just were not sampled in a good way -- it just got bad. after rebooting everything got ok. now, i have seen many memleaks, even in the kernel, but never did i see such a sound problem? any hints? kind regards, paul.