Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15

[Ariel]

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...

> 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.

I rebooted without nvidia or vmware ever being loaded and got a 
leak of 1.12KB/s. So I think we can rule that out.

A commonality I'm noticing is SATA. SATA had a big update in this 
version, so perhaps that's where to start looking.

	-Ariel
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