Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Srikumar Subramanian <> | Subject | RE: memory leak in call_usermodehelper() | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:14:26 -0500 |
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Hi, I am using 2.4.20-8 Redhat 9 kernel.
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@osdl.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:20 AM To: Srikumar Subramanian Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; SrikumarS@ami.com; BoopathiV@ami.com Subject: Re: memory leak in call_usermodehelper()
Srikumar Subramanian <SrikumarS@ami.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > >From my customized system call, I merely call call_usermodehelper() to spawn > a process. When I call my_system_call around 1000 times in order to spawn > 'hello world' program, I noticed in 'top' program that system has lost 200 > KB of free memory. > I just increased the iteration to 700000, I lost the entire 128 MB free > memory from my system and eventually the system is freezed. >
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