Re: 2.6.16-mm1 leaks in dvb playback (found)

From: David S. Miller
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 02:45:03 EST


From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:28:59 +0100

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:22:35 +0200 (+0200), Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:28:21PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:11:31 +0100
> > >
> > > > Hmm - it looks like it was meant to be reverted in 2.6.16-rc1-mm4,5 FWIW.
> > >
> > > So is the current version in Linus's tree causing this problem?
>
> I'm taking 2.6.16(.0) adding -mm1. When running dvbstream I get
> dentry_cache and sock_inode_cache leaking about 4MB/s.
>
> I then revert this ENFILE/EMFILE patch and both leaks stop.

As I stated, there was a bug in the initial patch, which subsequent
patches fix.

Can you try Linus's current tree to see if the problem is there?
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