[mythtv-users] Re: Is this a memory leak?

[Simon Kenyon]

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 15:57, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> Except from whitepaper:
>
> This poses a problem for anyone wanting to use Linux as a communications
> server handling a large number of connections or queueing a large number
> of messages.  The reason is that calling the kernel memory allocator
> from a STREAMS driver will not cause disk buffers to be released to
> satisfy the allocation request.  Thus, if memory is nearly full of disk
> buffers and the like there is only a small amount of memory left for
> control blocks and messages.
sounds like a bug in the driver to me
--
simon