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Re: 2.6.0: something is leaking memory

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0: something is leaking memory
From: Erik Hensema <erik@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:14:42 +0100
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040104204834.40b6ca51.davem@redhat.com>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:48:34PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:30:21 -0800 (PST)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > You've got 19 _megabytes_ allocated to "tcp6_sock", and they are all 
> > marked as "active". That's almost certainly the leaking bug.
> > 
> > Everything else looks reasonably normal.
>  ...
> > David?
> 
> Fixed by changeset 1.1496.16.1 which is in 2.6.1-rc1

Are you sure?

tcp6_sock           1110   1136   1024    4    1 : tunables   54   27    0
: slabdata    284    284      0

dexter:~ # netstat --inet6 | wc -l
     21
dexter:~ # uptime
 19:13:22 up  4:36,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.09

This is 2.6.1-rc1.

I can't say anything definitive until after a few days of uptime, but it
sure seems the leak is still there.
-- 
Erik Hensema (erik@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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