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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:45:09 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kerneld for FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <200006141645.KAA22201@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2000 03:48:08 PDT." <20000614104808.21CDC1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> 
References:  <20000614104808.21CDC1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>  

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In message <20000614104808.21CDC1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Peter Wemm writes:
: There is?  There is a well-known leak for preload stuff - the pages
: are not (yet) reclaimed after unload.  We have the infrastructure to
: do that now.  See vm_page_t vm_add_new_page(vm_offset_t pa);
: This can be used to reclaim the space consumed by preloaded files.

Maybe it was something a driver of mine did then, since in 4.0-stable
I have observed that multiple load/unload of the driver caused a
memory leak that was about the same size as the text/data sections of
the driver.  Maybe I had a leak in my code instead...

Warner


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