Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6 7/9] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 14 Jun 2006 07:46:02 +0200 |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes: > But it's not just about the amount of false negatives, but also about > the overhead of scanning. You are concentrated on embedded systems with > small RAM - but most of the testers will be running this with at last > 1GB of RAM - which is _alot_ of memory to scan.
Most of this should be normally in page cache which doesn't need to be scanned?
There might be some extreme loads with a lot more kernel data, but they are probably rare.
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