Re: memory leak in 2.3.17

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:45:53 +0100 (BST)


> There's a nasty memory leak in 2.3.{17,18}, _possibly_ caused by changes
> to scsi_malloc in the 2.3.17 patch.

scsi_malloc hasnt changed between 2.3.16 and 2.3.17

> When idle I lost perhaps one (4k) page every 20 seconds. Holding down
> Alt-SysRq-M made it leak faster as info was being written to syslog and
> thus flushed to disk. Heavy disk IO made it leak significantly faster.

That sounds more like a page cache bug

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