Re: Expertise required:USB bulk-throughput and memory leakdetection

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Jun 26 2006 - 07:28:22 EST


On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:50 +0530, bhuvan.kumarmital@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>

you made the same mistake here as on kernelnewbies.. you didn't post a
pointer to the source code ;)


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bhuvan Kumarmital (WT01 - Semiconductors & Consumer
> > Electronics)
> > To: 'kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: Expertise required:USB bulk-throughput and memory
> > leak detection
> >
> >
> > My team is developing a device driver for a PCMCIA based
> > USB device. We're currently trying to test the performance of
> > our driver. However we're unable to figure out a reliable methods of:
> > 1.) detecting memory leaks caused by our driver code.
> > 2.) Neither have we been able to find a tool which shows %
> > utilisation of kernel memory used by our driver.(kernel
> > memory monitoring)
> > 3.) Throughput calculation of bulk data transfer is also not
> > precise. We still rely on measuring time on stop watch, while
> > Transferring data.
> >
> > About the memory monitoring, there are quite a few tools
> > available at the application level (like free and top which
> > are available with the operating system itself). But none for
> > the kernel level.
> >
> > Please suggest other feasible ways of detecting leaks and
> > monitoring kernel memory utilisation for kernel 2.6.15.4 on
> > fedora core 4.
> >
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