Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15

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On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 21:14 -0500, Ariel wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 09:16 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:13 -0500, Ariel wrote:
> 
> >>>>> I have a memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache.
> 
> >>>> does this happen without the binary nvidia driver too? (it appears
> >>>> you're using that). That's a good datapoint to have if so...
> 
> > please repeat this without nvidia ever being loaded. Just having a
> > module loaded before can already cause corruption that ripples through
> > later, so just unloading is not enough to get a clean result.
> 
> I rebooted without nvidia or vmware ever being loaded and got a 
> leak of 1.12KB/s. So I think we can rule that out.

great

> 
> A commonality I'm noticing is SATA. SATA had a big update in this 
> version, so perhaps that's where to start looking.

I wonder if it can be narrowed even more, like to the exact chipset
driver?

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