Re: Memory leak

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:42:15 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Arjan Filius wrote:

> > Hi, everybody!
> > I have some problem with the memory leak:-(
> > After the 10 days my Linux box looses most part of his memory.
> > It seem to be the same that happened with RH4.1 kernel 2.0.33
>
> I noticed the 2.1.1xx kernels leak in the sound driver (SB16), every time
> you unload the module(s) (kerneld/rmmod -a) you loose 64K or 32K. Perhaps
> this is also in 2.0.35 with the new modular sound?

2.0.36 ditched modular sound in pre3 or 4. 2.0.35 doesn't have
modular sound I don't think.

> I wrote a small script which makes it easy for you to test the soundriver
> on memleaks (just loading using and unloading sounddriver a lot, and print
> meminfo). (i can post it i you want it).

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