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Subject: Re: acpica memory leak?
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On Saturday 11 February 2006 05:05 am, Morten Rodal wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 December 2005 17:27, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > So it looks much more serious than in my case:
> >
> > anger:root:# vmstat -m | grep acpica
> >        acpica  4550   235K       -   251941
> > 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048 anger:root:# vmstat -m | grep
> > acpica acpica  4558   235K       -   257176
> > 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048 anger:root:# vmstat -m | grep
> > acpica acpica  4562   235K       -   265940
> > 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048 anger:root:# uptime
> > 17:26  up 5 days, 19:06, 21 users, load averages: 0,15 0,13 0,09
>
> Did any of you find out what caused this?

It seems to be a vendor bug.  However, they said they couldn't 
reproduce the problem.  I am trying to find the root cause but I got 
no luck so far. :-(

> I see this on my computer: 
> | [burton] ~> sysctl kern.malloc | grep acpica
> |        acpica 42884  2658K       -  1127825
>
> 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048
>
> | [burton] ~> uptime
> | 11:02am  up 4 days, 16:45, 0 users, load averages: 0.51, 0.24,
> | 0.10
>
> This is a EPoX 8K9A7I motherboard with AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton)
> processor.  According to the acpi it is a KT400A AWRDACPI.

Try

	acpidump -d -t > acpi.asl

and send me the acpi.asl.

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim