Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:58:49 +0000 | From | "Catalin Marinas" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13 |
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On 17/12/06, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > one more thing: after bootup i need to access the /debug/memleak file > twice to get any output from it - is that normal? The first 'cat > /debug/memleak' gives no output (but there's the usual scanning delay, > so memleak does do its work).
Yes, this is normal. Especially on SMP, I get some transient reports, probably caused by pointers hold in registers (even more visible on ARM due to the bigger number of registers per CPU). Reporting a leak only if it was seen at least once before greatly reduces the false positives (this is configurable as well but I'll drop the configuration option). Without this, you could see that, at every scan, the reported pointers are different.
Some people testing kmemleak used to read the /debug/memleak file periodically from a script and this wasn't noticeable. It would be even better if, as you suggested, I schedule a periodic memory scanning.
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