linux-kernel - Re: detecting kernel mem leak

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805071020210.3173@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 10:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Stéphane ANCELOT <sancelot@...e.fr>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: detecting kernel mem leak

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Stéphane ANCELOT wrote:

> however, since there are always cache filled,  is there a way to flush 
> all cashes and then consult slabinfo with caches empty ???

Not sure what this is about. per cpu cached objects?

slabinfo -s

will shrink all caches and throw all cpu slabs away. The system will touch 
some essential caches immediately though. So some processor will 
immediately reallocate cpu slabs.