In <beee84cb0906261432j60debb2bq68ae677bae823...@mail.gmail.com>, Victor Padro wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith >Jr.<b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >> Memory leaks within a userland processes to not affect the system beyond >> the lifetime of that process. Memory leaks within the kernel or a >> module will require a reboot. >How do you determine/detect a kernel memory leak?
I actually couldn't tell you. I just *assume* my kernel isn't leaking memory. There are Linux-specific tools to extract the kernel memory map in order to (e.g.) more accurately charge processes for shared memory, and you could probably analyze that over time to find increasing amounts of pages allocated to the kernel. Assuming your system is under constant load, the resources needed by the kernel may fluctuate but they should not steadily grow. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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