Re: [uml-devel] oops and memory leak with uml-patch-2.5.67-1

[Vladimir B. S. <ma...@se...>]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:07:21PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> ma...@se... said:
> > uml1:~# while /bin/true ; do /bin/true ; done
> > After a minute I get OOM and oops:
> > Out of Memory: Killed process 129 (atd). 
> 
> I just looked at this one and UML is leaking task structs.  When a process's
> parent waits for it after its exit, there is still one reference on the
> task struct, so it's not freed.

I suppose that not only task structs but some process memory as well?
After the test slab cache consumes about 3M but more that 20M is leaked.

> 
> I haven't yet figured out where that stray reference is coming from.
> 
> 				Jeff
> 

:wq
                                        With best regards, 
                                           Vladimir Savkin.