Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:02:17 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Tracking down a memory leak |
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Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it> wrote: > > Thanks to everybody who replied to me. Here's more data: > > sh-2.05b# sort -rn +1 /proc/slabinfo | head -5 > biovec-1 7502216 7502296 16 226 1 : tunables 120 60 0 : slabdata 33196 33196 0 > bio 7502216 7502262 96 41 1 : tunables 120 60 0 : slabdata 182982 182982 0
Are you using RAID?
From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
insert a missing bio_put when writing the md superblock.
Without this we have a steady growth in the "bio" slab.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> ---
drivers/md/md.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-bio-leak-fix drivers/md/md.c --- 25/drivers/md/md.c~md-bio-leak-fix 2005-06-27 22:29:13.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c 2005-06-27 22:29:13.000000000 -0700 @@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ static int super_written(struct bio *bio if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rdev->mddev->pending_writes)) wake_up(&rdev->mddev->sb_wait); + bio_put(bio); return 0; } _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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