inotifyd - possible memory leak?
Piotr Grudzinski
piotr at powersmiths.com
Tue Nov 17 14:38:35 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.
In my case, the above sequence of 3 inotifyd is triggered every 5 minute;
and every 5 minutes an additional 40 to 52K of RAM is lost.
>
>> 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?
> --
> vda
Would you suggest any particular release?
--
Piotr
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