Re: Memory leaks in Kernel 2.6.32.28

Selon karesmakro <[email protected]>:

> Hello there,
> I know, the copfilter project is not appreciated very well! But this
> problem do not belong only to copfilter, it's a common problem. I
> noticed on applications, which uses much of memory (e.g. clamav), that
> the memory is growing from day to day. I also noticed, if the
> applications are restarted, the memory is not freeing (only a small part)
> So my Cop was running 3 weeks and I had 56MB swapped space (with 1GB
> RAM) and was growing.
>
> I made some tests and also compiled clamav only with needed functions,
> but this seems not to solve the problem. After some researches, I found
> a well known kernel bug in mm page-allocator
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/130117
>
> I'm currently using SVN Build 5349 and as I remember right, this was no
> problem in SVN Builds at around Sep. - Nov. 2010
>
>
> So I hope, someone can say anything about!
>
> regards, karesmakro
>
Not easy to track an issue when there is no simple way to reproduce.

The launchpap link suggest that the leak does not appear in 2.6.33, only in
2.6.32.
That may mean a fix may miss in 2.6.32 longterm branch or that some different
interaction in 2.6.33 make that issue disappear.
I may try to look at git log changes from 2.6.32 to 2.6.33.
Unsure I could find a pin in this byte forrest.


Gilles

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