[Gllug] Troubleshooting Memory Leak

[John Hearns]

2009/3/24 James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com>:
>> Either way you'd be looking at a kernel bug. The kernel is supposed to
> protect you from sloppy code by cleaning up after processes that
> forget to deallocate memory, when the process terminates.

It may not be an application level problem.
I have seen network drivers causing memory problems - allocating large
amounts of slab memory.
This was admittedly some specialised low-latency drivers, but was a
kernel/driver issue nonetheless.
Diagnose using slabtop.
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