Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:03:31 +0100 | From | Markus Trippelsdorf <> | Subject | Re: "perf top -g" leaking ~300MB per second. |
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On 2014.12.13 at 09:48 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > Running "perf top -g" built from current Linus tree apparently leaks > ~300MB of memory every second an my machine.
Hmm, this is a much older problem. I just noticed this the first time today. To reproduce: Compile some application in the background (make -j4 in my case) and run "perf top -g". Perf will continue to accumulate memory until the system starts to swap and the OOM killer eventually kicks in.
-- Markus
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