On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Daxbert wrote:

> Quoting Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Ed Alley wrote:
> > > 
> > > Re: Resource leaks
> > >   <HOWTO track resource leaks in kernel modules?>
> > 
> > what KIND of resource leaks?
> > 
> 
> I guess I asked this question of the wrong list.  I'm interested in
> finding dma allocs, memory allocs, and IRQ/IO allocs which occur
> during a LKM's attached life.  I'm adding the ability to detach
> if_de and was hoping to find assistance on where to look for
> resource tracking tools.

For malloc (in the kernel) you can specify a separate pool for a module,
so that it will account for mallocs for that module separatly.
you can then look at them with vmstat -m


check out sys/malloc.h
and look at MALLOC_DECLARE

is this for 4.x or 5.x?


> 
> --daxbert
> 


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