On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:59:33AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rap...@iki.fi> > > To: Debian kernel team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> > > Subject: Re: lenny kernel memory leak? > > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:53:35 +0200 > > > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:30:54PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Try c95edf5432f097c926dd3f59239ecde80da3b214 "rt2x00: Properly clean up > > > beacon skbs." > > > > With this I got kernel panics at boot when loading the modules. Maybe it > > depends on some other patches. > > > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7087a828f8714e464fff18d93618727530dfd89;hp=5adf6d63c1697ce1835daf2b5393488a71ee0dca > > > > This is now in. Will see if it makes any difference in a few days. > > Did it fix the issue?
Well, I think above is the only patch I have added to the kernel. Slab has been slowly increasing but no OOM so far, so I would say yes, it fixed the issue: Mon Dec 21 00:45:53 EET 2009 Slab: 4088 kB Mon Dec 21 00:46:13 EET 2009 Slab: 4120 kB Mon Dec 21 00:46:34 EET 2009 Slab: 4108 kB Mon Dec 21 00:46:54 EET 2009 Slab: 4136 kB Mon Dec 21 00:47:14 EET 2009 Slab: 4220 kB Mon Dec 21 00:47:34 EET 2009 Slab: 4200 kB ... Thu May 6 09:02:18 EEST 2010 Slab: 7376 kB Thu May 6 09:02:39 EEST 2010 Slab: 7368 kB Thu May 6 09:02:59 EEST 2010 Slab: 7268 kB Thu May 6 09:03:19 EEST 2010 Slab: 7168 kB Thu May 6 09:03:39 EEST 2010 Slab: 7168 kB Thu May 6 09:03:59 EEST 2010 Slab: 7192 kB Thu May 6 09:04:19 EEST 2010 Slab: 7152 kB $ uptime 09:05:12 up 136 days, 7:42, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.16, 0.05 Cheers, -Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
