[ltp] kernel memory leak with ipw wireless?

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 03:44:03AM +0000, River Tarnell wrote:
> > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
> >
> > i've recently been having an odd problem where the free memory in 'free
> > -m' goes down forever until i reboot--that's the buffers/cache memory,
> 
> This problem is fixed in ipw2200-1.0.9 and later versions.
> 

I am seeing a similar problem on my desktop which does not have a
wireless card.  However, I'd be interested in finding out how to track
down kernel memory leaks.  Or at least the existence of such.

Something on my system is eating up memory and it doesn't show in
top.  It takes about two weeks to go from 132MB (used - buffers -
cache) to over 400MB out of 512MB.  At which point I reboot, Quake III
is unplayable and almost any switch of program in use triggers
swapping.

TIA,
  Jeffrey