-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:26:53PM -0700, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote: > I am running kernel 2.6.11 on my platform. > I think my system has memory leak either in kernel or application > layer. I suppose you like historic kernels. If you ever suspect a kernel bug, try with the latest stable kernel and see if the problem goes away. > To detect kernel memory leak, I have been looking at slab information > using slabtop utility. Here are my questions: > 1- how to interpret each field? any docs??? Read the original slab paper: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bonwick94slab.html (click the "view or download" links in the upper right corner). > 2- slaptop shows the "buffer_head" keeps increasing (almost to the > amount that free memory is reducing), what this indicates? It indicates that the kernel caches disk IO. Nothing special, it's considered a good thing. Free memory OTOH is considered a bad thing, memory should be used as much as possible. Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGlJm//PlVHJtIto0RAoptAJ4yT8JmL4yHrprzL8V0RMGPQXd4rgCdFRg7 TPI62imdYloIelzip/tbKfI= =aEJB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
