On Tuesday 25 January 2011 03:25, James Limbouris wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using busybox 1.17.1 in an ARM embedded system, and > I have found a bug in _something_, though it may not be > busybox itself. When I have a respawn line in my inittab, > pointing to a non-existent or quickly exiting binary, > I find that memory is slowly leaked - roughly 12 kB every > 2 or 3 seconds. The memory doesn't go to any user processes, > and when the kernel is compiled with kmemleak, I see > an ever increasing number of kmemleak_object's in > /proc/slabinfo (but no leaks reported by kmemleak).
And without kmemleak compiled in, what line(s) in /proc/slabinfo show growth? Are you sure nothing in top show unbounded growth? Post "top -bmn1" output when you already see a considerable leak. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
