Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:11:46 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Ian Freislich" <ianf@za.uu.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel memory leak? Message-ID: <30054.1050441106@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:40:20 %2B0200." <55218.1050439220@wcom.com>
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In message <55218.1050439220@wcom.com>, "Ian Freislich" writes: >Running this program, resulted in my server panicing after about >15 minutes (15000 iterations). Watching top, the 'wired' memory >slowly increases increases until the system panics with the message >below. It's very repeatable, so I can get a more detailed backtrace >if required. That looks like a memory leak in my department, I'll fix it before 5.1. Poul-Henning ># There must be a better way to do this I suggest instead you search for valid superblocks, they have a well-defined magic word you could look for. I even belive I have seen reports of a tool that does it automatically, but have no references at hand. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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