linux-kernel - Re: "perf top -g" leaking ~300MB per second.

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Message-ID: <548C828B.4040309@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:16:43 -0700
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: "perf top -g" leaking ~300MB per second.

On 12/13/14 8:26 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> The callchain code was done initially for 'report' and when I made 'top'
> reuse the hist_entry code allowing 'top' to collect callchains was too
> easy, but then we need to go thru the callchain/hists/hist_entry code to
> make sure that they don't leak, will try to do it...
>

As I recall it is build up of the dead_threads list.

David

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