On Tue, Feb 28, 2006, Michael Pflüger wrote: > I don't know if this is the correct mailing list for this, but i guess > i'll try: > > I use szap and cat to record dvb stuff to my hd. (I got a skystar2 and > kernel 2.6.15) > > now, when i want to stop the recording, those commands work without any > problems: > > killall cat && killall szap > killall szap && sleep 0.1 && killall cat > > however, when i first kill szap and immediatly after that kill cat, like > this: > > killall szap && killall cat > > only the Vmalloc that is allocated after the szap call gets freed, > the Vmalloc that is allocated after the cat call is not freed(even > though both processes get killed). :/ > > Calling szap -r <channel> allocates 136KB of Vmalloc, a call to cat > allocates additional 1884KB, > the latter doesn't get unallocated when killing the 2 processes > "wrongly" as described above. How did you determine that there is a leak? By looking at /proc/meminfo? If so, why is this sufficient to determine that there is a leak? > Now i'd be happy if anyone could tell me why this is and if it is a > known problem or if i should report it as a bug (the question would then > be to whom?) :) You just reported it as a bug ;-) Can someone confirm this? And if so, does someone care to look into it? Is it specific to the skystar2 driver or does it happen with all drivers? Johannes _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
