Re: Kernel memory leak?

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:11:46 +0200
In message <55218.1050439220_at_wcom.com>, "Ian Freislich" writes:

>Running this program, resulted in my server panicing after about
>15 minutes (15000 iterations).  Watching top, the 'wired' memory
>slowly increases increases until the system panics with the message
>below.  It's very repeatable, so I can get a more detailed backtrace
>if required.

That looks like a memory leak in my department, I'll fix it before 5.1.

Poul-Henning

># There must be a better way to do this

I suggest instead you search for valid superblocks, they have a 
well-defined magic word you could look for.

I even belive I have seen reports of a tool that does it automatically,
but have no references at hand.

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Received on Tue Apr 15 2003 - 12:11:51 UTC

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