[BusyBox] Memory leak ?
Robin Gilks
robin.gilks at tait.co.nz
Wed Oct 1 10:40:47 MDT 2003
Greetings
Am I being dumb or am I seeing a memory leak...
Running busybox 1.00-pre3 statically compiled against uclibc-0.9.20
using gcc-3.3.1 on a powerpc 8xx. Kernel is generic 2.4.21 with SCC uart
mods from the Denx tree.
For any application that is run, 4k disappears from the Free pool but
doesn't appear anywhere else. Occationally, it will spontainiously
reboot with it killing init due to a lack of memory.
I'm also seeing strange corruption (related? don't know!!). I start with
a command output like...
/ # free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 6756 5464 1292 0 68
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 6756 5464 1292
and end up with a mode that jumbles stuff about like...
/ # re/ # f
total usede
free shared buffers 68 Mem: 6756
5596 1160 0 Swap: 0 0
Total: 6756 5596 0
/ # 1160
Weird or what :-((
Any pointers to expected behaviours would be of great help, where to
start debugging to see if the leak is real would also move the project
along nicely!!
Cheers
--
Robin Gilks
Senior Design Engineer Phone: (+64)(3) 357 1569
Tait Electronics Fax : (+64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : robin.gilks at tait.co.nz
New Zealand
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