On Nov 17, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > memory leak
>
> Aha. Must be a missing kfree().
> Does this help?
>
> --- namei.c~ Fri Nov 17 00:48:37 2000
> +++ namei.c Fri Nov 17 21:59:49 2000
> @@ -197,6 +197,8 @@
> bh = NULL;
> break;
> }
> + if (cpnt)
> + kfree(cpnt);
> }
> if (page)
> free_page((unsigned long) page);
>
> Andries
this seems to make things much worse: starting with ~90M free memory
"du" again started leaking (or maybe just using memory?) down to ~80M free
memory when the system suddently locked up completely, no console switch
was possible anymore (but Sysrq-B did reboot).
Harald
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