inotifyd - possible memory leak?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 17 15:32:54 UTC 2009


On Monday 16 November 2009 21:37, Piotr Grudzinski wrote:
> I do have 3 inotifyd processes.
> The first - waits for some file.
> The second waits for file created by the script called by first inotifyd and 
> calls wget program (not from bb).
> The third is triggered by the file created by wget program above.
> 
> >
> > Are you sure it's not just fragmentation?
> > NOMMU systems are prone to it.
> 
> With bb-1.15.2 my system looses 40K to 52K of RAM as reported by the free 
> command.

Loses 40K to 52K per what period of time? Memory leak is characterized
by unlimited growth of used memory, not by fixed amount.

> bb-1.13.1 looses nothing. The problem seems to be related to bb-1.15.2
> I am running hush shell.

1.13.1 - 1.15.2 interval is large.
Can you narrow it down more?
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