Change eats memory on my server
Christian König
christian.koenig at amd.com
Mon Jan 18 07:57:26 UTC 2021
Am 18.01.21 um 08:49 schrieb Eli Cohen:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 08:43:12AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
>> Hi Eli,
>>
>> have you already tried using kmemleak?
>>
>> This sounds like a leak of memory allocated using kmalloc(), so kmemleak
>> should be able to catch it.
>>
> Hi Christian,
>
> I have the following configured but I did not see any visible complaint
> in dmesg.
>
> CONFIG_HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE=16000
>
> Any other configuration that I need to set?
As long as you don't have any kernel parameters to enable it I think you
need to do "echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak" to start a scan.
The result can then be queried using "cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak".
Regards,
Christian.
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