From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "perf top -g" leaking ~300MB per second.
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:03:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141213090331.GB13453@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141213084845.GA13453@x4>
On 2014.12.13 at 09:48 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Running "perf top -g" built from current Linus tree apparently leaks
> ~300MB of memory every second an my machine.
Hmm, this is a much older problem. I just noticed this the first time
today.
To reproduce: Compile some application in the background (make -j4 in my
case) and run "perf top -g". Perf will continue to accumulate memory
until the system starts to swap and the OOM killer eventually kicks in.
--
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-13 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-13 8:48 "perf top -g" leaking ~300MB per second Markus Trippelsdorf
2014-12-13 9:03 ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
2014-12-13 15:26 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-13 18:16 ` David Ahern
2014-12-30 5:38 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-12-30 8:35 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2014-12-30 23:04 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-01-08 15:09 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-01-09 12:31 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf callchain: Free callchains when hist entries are deleted tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
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