Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:58:56 -0800 | From | Jamie Heilman <> | Subject | Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15 |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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.
Hrmph, yeah one of my workstations is exhibiting this too. I use the nvidia module, but I did clean reboot without it loaded and the leak was still there. So I'll add my data points at http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/k/ ... all the files starting with "scsi_cmd_cache."
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