From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753602AbYEGRWX (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 13:22:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753522AbYEGRWC (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 13:22:02 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:57445 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752402AbYEGRWA (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 13:22:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 10:21:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_ANCELOT?= cc: Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: detecting kernel mem leak In-Reply-To: <4821C526.8030901@free.fr> Message-ID: References: <1209462094.4816ed4e93977@imp.free.fr> <84144f020804290546h666983aci77fbb08eb507e777@mail.gmail.com> <4821C526.8030901@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1700579579-647866999-1210180919=:3173" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1700579579-647866999-1210180919=:3173 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 7 May 2008, St=E9phane ANCELOT wrote: > however, since there are always cache filled,=A0 is there a way to flush= =20 > all cashes and then consult slabinfo with caches empty ??? Not sure what this is about. per cpu cached objects? slabinfo -s will shrink all caches and throw all cpu slabs away. The system will touch= =20 some essential caches immediately though. So some processor will=20 immediately reallocate cpu slabs. ---1700579579-647866999-1210180919=:3173--