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Re: tracking down kernel memory leaks

Avishay Traeger <atraeger@cs.sunysb.edu> writes:

> Is this what you were referring to?
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107325029717735&w=2


    Subject: 2.6.0: something is leaking memory

Yup.  That's it.  :)

I see now that they were able to use slabinfo because there is a
special slab object, tcp6_sock.  For generic kmalloc memory, I don't
think slabinfo would help.

Thanks much.

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