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Jul. 13th, 2004 09:40 pmKernel 2.6.7 has got to have a memory leak in it that's file system related. I pulled a copy of the offical FLCL DVD's from a Bittorrent source recommended by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gentlewolfox and got it on my system. I then ID'ed the individual VOB's for each episode, got them moved over, and started reencoding them to Mpeg4 AVI's using good ol' fashioned MEncoder.
The memory usage slowly... and steadily... grew, to half my memory (on a 1.5 Gig system)... and didn't get released.
Okay, let's see what's going on. Check "top" and kill mozilla... nope, that didn't do it. Get out of X entirely... nope. It's not page cache, that takes up the rest but the kernel's good at freeing it in times of need. There's a kernel memory leak... and early reports says it's the VFS system.
A bug already filed there. Maybe if I trace over a User Mode Linux kernel, see where the bug is, I'll find out.
gentlewolfox and got it on my system. I then ID'ed the individual VOB's for each episode, got them moved over, and started reencoding them to Mpeg4 AVI's using good ol' fashioned MEncoder.The memory usage slowly... and steadily... grew, to half my memory (on a 1.5 Gig system)... and didn't get released.
Okay, let's see what's going on. Check "top" and kill mozilla... nope, that didn't do it. Get out of X entirely... nope. It's not page cache, that takes up the rest but the kernel's good at freeing it in times of need. There's a kernel memory leak... and early reports says it's the VFS system.
A bug already filed there. Maybe if I trace over a User Mode Linux kernel, see where the bug is, I'll find out.
