linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak, cpu usage jump out of nowhere

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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:40:26 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@...e.fr>
Cc:	Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak, cpu usage jump out of nowhere

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 11:32 +0200, Damien Wyart wrote:

> After a few days of running 2.6.35.2 without problem, 

>  I am surprised so few people reported it and
> that it has not been seen on test machines running CPU/scheduler
> benchmark tools.
> 
My machines are lucky if a kernel has hours of runtime, days almost
never happens, there's always the next kernel to test ;-)

But yeah, you'd expect more people to run into something like this..

Most odd thing..
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