Re: -rc3 leaking NOT BIO [Was: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?]

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 16 2005 - 18:52:06 EST


Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:12 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Plenty of moisture there.
> >
> > Could you please use this patch?  Make sure that you enable
> > CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER (might not be needed for __builtin_return_address(0),
> > but let's be sure).  Also enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.
>
> Will try that out. For now I tried -rc4 and couple other things - removing
> nvidia module doesnt make any difference but removing ndiswrapper and with no
> networking the slab growth stops. With 8139too driver and network the growth
> is there but pretty slower than with ndiswrapper. With 8139too + some network
> activity slab seems to reduce sometimes.

OK.

> Seems either an ndiswrapper or a networking related leak. Will report the
> results with Manfred's patch tomorrow.

So it's probably an ndiswrapper bug?
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