Memory leak

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Mar 10 11:02:34 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:48, matsunaga wrote:

> It is correct that rmmod will resolve it, but my concern is a
> consistency of resource and memory saving.
> Dnode resource acuqired during mount seems not to be refereneced when
> you access to the file.

No. My point is _not_ that rmmod will resolve it, rather that rmmod will
complain _loudly_ if there are slab resources still allocated when you
try to unload the module. You'll then be unable to reload the module at
all, if I recall correctly.

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dwmw2





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