On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:05:19 +0200 "Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The only thing I noted during load testing (updating Gentoo == > compiling and installing) was, that there seems to be memory leak. > After ~2h 2.5 of my 4Gb where gone. But there where to many things > going on to pinpoint it... (NFSv4 over eth1394?) Please send /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo after the leak has been happening for a while. Sometimes `echo m > /proc/sysrq_trigger ; dmesg -s 1000000' will provide useful info. The page-owner code can pinpoint a leak source. See ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/broken-out/page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK, check out /proc/slab_allocators - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html