Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Possible memory leak in Linux kernel 2.6 with PetaLinux v0.30

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Johan,,

Sorry for the delayed reply - I'l ticket this one up and check it out 
asa soon as possible.  Any updated information on your end about the issue?

Thanks,

John

Dr. Johann Pfefferl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> has anyone out there perceived the following behaviour on Petalinux
> v0.30 with kernel 2.6 on Microblaze. If I do the following in the
> command shell:
>
> # while :;do free;done
>
> The shown "used" memory grows endless until the kernel kills a process
> or the kernel terminates with a panic. If the kernel kills a process you
> sometimes can login again. But the used memory hasn't shrinked. The used
> shell and the "free" command are parts of the busybox. First I thought
> that the busybox has a memory leek. But in this case the kernel normally
> should kill the busybox process and the system should free the used
> memory and the system continues to run. Or is there a memory leak inside
> the kernel where process starting/forking/exec/loading takes place?
>
> Hopefully some people out there can check this on their platform and
> report the results of this simple test.
>
> Thanks
>    Hans

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