Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:05:32 +0200 | From | Martin von Loewis <> | Subject | Re: Debugging the kernel when it doesn't crash |
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> I would like to give some info to the developers but I cannot find how to > do it. Is there a way to force a crash dump, for instance? How to help > debugging that version on the Bleeding Edge?
This sounds like a memory leak somewhere: Something eats more and more memory, until only little memory is left to the applications. I don't know whether there are already ideas about searching memory leaks in the kernel; a good start would be watching /proc/slabinfo. If you see that some pool continually grows, you know at least what kind of object consumes all the memory. Finding out where it was allocated is left as an exercise :-)
Regards, Martin
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