> > > >I've got a problem that my KLD is "leaking" wired memory. > > > >It's not actually growing in size, vmstat -m shows a fairly constant > allocation, >and certainly "high" isn't increasing. It's just that as I use it > more, and more >memory gets wired down, and the system becomes unusable. > [blah] > > Just for the archives, it was, predictably, a memory leak after all. My > _vnops.c > wasn't freeing the cn_pnbuf. > > Why Oh Why(tm) is everything else freed for you, but the path buffer is left > to > the poor, confused, FS to free?
Because you may have reallocated it yourself (eg. following a symbolic link type object). At least, that's the only justification I've come up with. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
