Re: detecting kernel mem leak

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

> I kept my kernel running with few applications for 5 days , doing
> nothing more than backing up few kb of data on disk and refresh few X apps.
>
> Ater five days the global memory available go down from 24Mb to 8Mb ...
>
> The are some signifiant changes in slabinfo but now, I do not know where
> to search ?

Look at these values more closely - this is where your memory is "gone":


> MemFree:          24324 kB.................8692Kb
> Buffers:              3956   kB...............18740Kb


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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