Re: 2.1.10x, Sound recource release bug found, but where to report?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:16:53 +0100 (BST)

> With kernel 2.1.103 (and 2.1.105 tested) i noticed a decresing amount of
> total memory (cat /proc/meminfo) when auto loading sound modules, using a
> sounddevice, and auto-unloading sounddrivers again, eats almost every time
> 16K,32K or 64Kb.

Eep. I thought I'd killed all of those.

> I've not dicovered why the sound driver eats sometimes just 16K, and
> other times 32K or 64Kb, but i _think_ it's the DMA memory.

Probably.

You might want to get the linux memleak patch and run it with that so you
can see what leaked.

And btw - this is exactly the right place to report the bug

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