Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 22:43:47 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel memory leak in ATAPI/CAM or ATAng? Message-ID: <3FAF2593.8020903@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20031110051238.AA1B05D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20031110051238.AA1B05D07@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: > Tested. It's much better, although ATA request keeps adding more > memory all the time when mplayer is playing, but it's now increasing > at about 20K/minute which is a huge improvement. Still, I don't > understand why it should just continue to grow all of the time. The > data rate is about constant. I would expect that it should grow to a > size where the data being processed can be accommodated and then stop > growing. I don't see it stopping. > > Thanks for the quick fix. Well, it sounds like there is still a memory leak somewhere. Make sure that you have rev 1.27 of atapi-cam.c to be sure. If so, please let me know which malloc type in vmstat -m is growing. Scott
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