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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "Oliver Pinter" <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:27:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260802192327v124a841dnc7d9b1c7e9057545@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6101e8c40802191018t668faf3avba9beeff34f7f853@mail.gmail.com>

On Feb 19, 2008 7:18 PM, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/19/08, Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I noticed that the amount of memory used by the Linux kernel steadily
> > increases over time on SMP systems (x86 architecture, 32-bit kernel).
> > This problem disappears when I add maxcpus=1 to the kernel command
> > line. I have observed this behavior both on the 2.6.22.18 and 2.6.24.2
> > kernels. Did anyone notice anything similar ?
> >
> > See also: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991
>
> this patch fixed them http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/405 ?

Thanks for the hint. If I interpreted the 2.6.24 changelog correctly
this patch is already included with 2.6.24 ? The problem still occurs
with 2.6.24.2. I am currently trying to find the minimal kernel config
which still triggers this problem. Any other hints for finding the
cause of this issue are welcome of course.

Bart Van Assche.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19 11:00 Bart Van Assche
2008-02-19 18:18 ` Oliver Pinter
2008-02-20  7:27   ` Bart Van Assche [this message]

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