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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 20:38:39 -0500 From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@...il.com> To: "Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com> Cc: "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: How to check for memory leaks On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote: > 2008/12/8 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>: >> What is the best way to check if there is a memory leak? >> >> If I start a ping running on my system using the rtl8187 driver, and nothing Is this the driver in the staging tree or a different one? >> else active on my system, I see an increase in the "slab" value in /proc/meminfo >> of about 65 kB/minute. Is this indicative of a memory leak? When I run the same >> test with p54usb, the increase is only 20 kB/min. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Larry > > > Hi, > > You could have a look on kmemleak: http://www.procode.org/kmemleak/ > It's up to date version is on the arm development git branch (topic kmemleak): > http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=summary > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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