Re: How to check for memory leaks

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/8 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>> What is the best way to check if there is a memory leak?
>>
>> If I start a ping running on my system using the rtl8187 driver, and nothing

Is this the driver in the staging tree or a different one?

>> else active on my system, I see an increase in the "slab" value in /proc/meminfo
>> of about 65 kB/minute. Is this indicative of a memory leak? When I run the same
>> test with p54usb, the increase is only 20 kB/min.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Larry
>
>
> Hi,
>
> You could have a look on kmemleak: http://www.procode.org/kmemleak/
> It's up to date version is on the arm development git branch (topic kmemleak):
> http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=summary
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