memory leak ?

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Pankaj,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Pankaj Pandey
<pankaj.embedded at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using 3.10 kernel on armv7 target board. We  observed  that
> Active(file), Inactive(file) and Buffers sections in /proc/meminfo
> have shown increase in memory usage even though none of the processes
> running in the system show increased memory usage. Please find log
> below:
>
>
> Log at 5 min
> Buffers:           23164 kB
> Active(file):      35128 kB
> Inactive(file):    97032 kB
>
>
> log at  30 min.
> Buffers:           65960 kB
> Active(file):      76024 kB
> Inactive(file):   117180 kB
>
> Is this a memory leak ? if yes how we can capture who is consuming these
> memories.
>

Did you already try enabling the Kernel Memory Leak Detector [0]?

> Regards,
> Pankaj
>

Best regards,
Javier

[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kmemleak.txt