linux-kernel - Re: detecting kernel mem leak

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Message-ID: <48296CBD.9030904@wpkg.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 12:26:05 +0200
From:	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, sancelot@...e.fr
Subject: Re: detecting kernel mem leak

> 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


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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