Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:07:21 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 13:51 -0500, Ariel wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 09:16 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:13 -0500, Ariel wrote: > >>> I have a memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache. > > >> does this happen without the binary nvidia driver too? (it appears > >> you're using that). That's a good datapoint to have if so... > > I had the exact same nvidia driver with 2.6.12 (just recompiled) and it > didn't happen there. > > But just in case I used slabtop to watch scsi_cmd_cache grow by 1.24KB per > second (104MB per day), then I rmmoded nvidia and watched it grow by > 1.16KB per
please repeat this without nvidia ever being loaded. Just having a module loaded before can already cause corruption that ripples through later, so just unloading is not enough to get a clean result.
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I see you also use vmware. The other person who reported this also uses vmware. Could you please repeat the test without BOTH the nvidia and vmware modules?
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