From: Michael Leun <ml@newton.leun.net>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dm-devel@redhat.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:21:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111023112140.37fd8b3d@xenia.leun.net> (raw)
Hi,
How to reproduce:
lvcreate -L30G -n testsnap vg1 # of course substitute VG as appropriate
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M # to make things clear
lvcreate -L15G -s /dev/vg1/test -n testsnap
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M &
watch free
I noticed roughly 1GB memory vanishing from free / -/+ buffers/cache
per 2GB copied.
Bisecting yielded a6e50b409d3f9e0833e69c3c9cca822e8fa4adbb, reverting
that from git master cures the memory leak
--
MfG,
Michael Leun
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-23 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 9:21 Michael Leun [this message]
2011-10-23 9:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-23 13:44 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-10-23 14:30 ` Michael Leun
2011-10-23 20:19 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2011-10-25 17:45 ` [PATCH] check for mempool memory leaks Mikulas Patocka
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20111023112140.37fd8b3d@xenia.leun.net \
--to=ml@newton.leun.net \
--cc=dm-devel@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mpatocka@redhat.com \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®