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From: Stefan Jones <stefan.jones@churchillrandoms.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG][2.6.13.4] Memoryleak - idr_layer_cache slab - inotify?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:24:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43593240.9020806@churchillrandoms.co.uk> (raw)

Hi all,

I noticed this a while back when gam_server (new fam replacement)
started playing up and the idr_layer_cache slab used up 300Mb of RAM.

To reproduce:

Run gnome and make sure it is using gam_server for fam.

In one console do:

while true ;do sleep 0.1 ; killall -w gam_server; done

In another try slabtop and see the idr_layer_cache slab climb, eating
memory (abit slowly).
( Gnome restarts gam_server after each kill for you and gets it doing
stuff )

I looked though the source and inotify does use the idr_layer_cache slab
and gam_server also uses inotify.

Thank for your time, shall I use bugzilla.kernel or is this ok? More
info needed?

Stefan




             reply	other threads:[~2005-10-21 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-21 18:24 Stefan Jones [this message]
2005-10-21 18:53 ` Stefan Jones
2005-10-21 20:17 ` Stefan Jones
2005-10-21 20:48   ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-21 21:35     ` Stefan Jones

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