Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc6 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.10

[Catalin Marinas]

On 07/09/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I get a kernel panic
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kmemleak-0.10/panic.jpg
>
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kmemleak-0.10/kml-config

Well, you set CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK_HASH_BITS to 32, this means that
kmemleak needs to allocate (sizeof(void*) * 2^32) which is 16GB of
RAM. I think a maximum of 20 should be enough (I got acceptable
results with 16 hash bits, the default value, and it seemed to do
better with 18).

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Catalin
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