Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc6 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.10

[Michal Piotrowski]

On 07/09/06, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/09/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07/09/06, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Have you tried 16?
> >
> > No, I haven't.

With DEBUG_MEMLEAK_HASH_BITS=16 system woks fine.

> 8 hash bits would lead to a really slow hash table lookup since you
> would only have 256 entries and it uses linked lists to deal with
> collisions (you may have tens of thousands of pointers to be stored in
> the hash). Anyway, I attach a patch which allows you to set small
> values but it is highly unrecommended.

How about documeting maxial "safe" values?

Something like
"If you have X MB/GB of RAM memory you can set Y
X   | Y
256 MB | 25
512 MB | 26
1GB | 27
2GB | 28
4GB | 29"

> --
> Catalin

Regards,
Michal

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Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group
(http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/)
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