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List:       user-mode-linux-devel
Subject:    Re: [uml-devel] oops and memory leak with uml-patch-2.5.67-1
From:       "Vladimir B. Savkin" <master () sectorb ! msk ! ru>
Date:       2003-07-30 13:55:40
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Hi!

Just checked uml-patch-2.6.0-test2-1
The leak is still there :(

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:12:28PM +0400, Vladimir B. Savkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:07:21PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > master@sectorb.msk.ru said:
> > > uml1:~# while /bin/true ; do /bin/true ; done
> > > After a minute I get OOM and oops:
> > > Out of Memory: Killed process 129 (atd). 
> > 
> > I just looked at this one and UML is leaking task structs.  When a process's
> > parent waits for it after its exit, there is still one reference on the
> > task struct, so it's not freed.
> 
> I suppose that not only task structs but some process memory as well?
> After the test slab cache consumes about 3M but more that 20M is leaked.
> 
> > 
> > I haven't yet figured out where that stray reference is coming from.
> > 
> > 				Jeff
> > 
> 
> :wq
>                                         With best regards, 
>                                            Vladimir Savkin. 
> 

:wq
                                        With best regards, 
                                           Vladimir Savkin. 



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