Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

[Jan Kasprzak]

axboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
: My guess would be the clone change, if raid was not leaking before. I
: cannot lookup any patches at the moment, as I'm still at the hospital
: taking care of my new born baby and wife :)

	Congratulations!

: But try and reverse the patches to fs/bio.c that mention corruption due to
: bio_clone and bio->bi_io_vec and see if that cures it. If it does, I know
: where to look. When did you notice this started to leak?

	I think I have been running 2.6.10-rc3 before. I've copied
the fs/bio.c from 2.6.10-rc3 to my 2.6.11-rc2 sources and booted the
resulting kernel. I hope it will not eat my filesystems :-) I will send
my /proc/slabinfo in a few days.

-Yenya

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