Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:58:59 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? |
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:34:44PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:17:01 +0000 > Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Yes. Someone suggested this evening that there may have been a recent > > change to do with some IPv6 refcounting which may have caused this > > problem. Is that something you can confirm? > > Yep, it would be this change below. Try backing it out and see > if that makes your leak go away.
Thanks. I'll try it, but:
1. Looking at the date of the change it seems unlikely. The recent death occurred with 2.6.10-rc2, booted on 29th November and dying on 19th January, which obviously predates this cset. 2. It'll take a couple of days to confirm the behaviour of the dst cache.
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