[ltp] Memory leak with vmalloc?

Hamish Marson linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:27:48 +0100


On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 23:13 +0200, Macskasi Csaba wrote:
> I have an R50e with 1gb of ram.
> I get this:
> 
> turul:~# uptime
>   23:09:33 up 2 days,  3:18,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.17, 0.15
> turul:~# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Vmalloc
> VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
> VmallocUsed:      5568 kB
> VmallocChunk:   108700 kB
> turul:~#
> 
> No problems at all after resuming a few times.
> Besides: Why is the driver for your network device compiled as a module?
> 

So I can unload it... I used to have some probs that could only be
solved with an rmmod/modprobe... They might not exist any more of
course. 

H