Since 1st weak of Sept I have been observing memory leak in my system, so after doing a little big of digging I found out that the leak is caused by kmalloc. In Linux 6.5.3 memory leak would increase to nearly 50% of my ram over a period of 6-9 hours. In the Newer Linux 6.5.4 I am yet to observe that much memory leak(Haven't used my laptop for that long till now) but over a period of 3 hours I see 2.2GB reserved and it is not used by any program at all. this is just after 3 hours of usage on Linux 6.5.4. Slabtop link: https://i.imgur.com/8OFw2Fa.png
(In reply to freeze0985 from comment #0) > Since 1st weak of Sept I have been observing memory leak in my system, so > after doing a little big of digging I found out that the leak is caused by > kmalloc. In Linux 6.5.3 memory leak would increase to nearly 50% of my ram > over a period of 6-9 hours. In the Newer Linux 6.5.4 I am yet to observe > that much memory leak(Haven't used my laptop for that long till now) but > over a period of 3 hours I see 2.2GB reserved and it is not used by any > program at all. this is just after 3 hours of usage on Linux 6.5.4. Slabtop > link: https://i.imgur.com/8OFw2Fa.png Do you have this issue on v6.1?
Not that i remember.
(In reply to Bagas Sanjaya from comment #1) > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #0) > > Since 1st weak of Sept I have been observing memory leak in my system, so > > after doing a little big of digging I found out that the leak is caused by > > kmalloc. In Linux 6.5.3 memory leak would increase to nearly 50% of my ram > > over a period of 6-9 hours. In the Newer Linux 6.5.4 I am yet to observe > > that much memory leak(Haven't used my laptop for that long till now) but > > over a period of 3 hours I see 2.2GB reserved and it is not used by any > > program at all. this is just after 3 hours of usage on Linux 6.5.4. Slabtop > > link: https://i.imgur.com/8OFw2Fa.png > > Do you have this issue on v6.1? I remember having boot problem at that time.
My system info: OS: ArcoLinux x86_64 Laptop name: Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16IAH7H CPU: i7-12700H RAM: 16GB GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P Kernel: linux-6.5.4
(In reply to freeze0985 from comment #3) > (In reply to Bagas Sanjaya from comment #1) > > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #0) > > > Since 1st weak of Sept I have been observing memory leak in my system, so > > > after doing a little big of digging I found out that the leak is caused > by > > > kmalloc. In Linux 6.5.3 memory leak would increase to nearly 50% of my > ram > > > over a period of 6-9 hours. In the Newer Linux 6.5.4 I am yet to observe > > > that much memory leak(Haven't used my laptop for that long till now) but > > > over a period of 3 hours I see 2.2GB reserved and it is not used by any > > > program at all. this is just after 3 hours of usage on Linux 6.5.4. > Slabtop > > > link: https://i.imgur.com/8OFw2Fa.png > > > > Do you have this issue on v6.1? > > I remember having boot problem at that time. What about v6.4?
Their was no problem iirc
(In reply to Bagas Sanjaya from comment #5) > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #3) > > (In reply to Bagas Sanjaya from comment #1) > > > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #0) > > > > Since 1st weak of Sept I have been observing memory leak in my system, > so > > > > after doing a little big of digging I found out that the leak is caused > > by > > > > kmalloc. In Linux 6.5.3 memory leak would increase to nearly 50% of my > > ram > > > > over a period of 6-9 hours. In the Newer Linux 6.5.4 I am yet to > observe > > > > that much memory leak(Haven't used my laptop for that long till now) > but > > > > over a period of 3 hours I see 2.2GB reserved and it is not used by any > > > > program at all. this is just after 3 hours of usage on Linux 6.5.4. > > Slabtop > > > > link: https://i.imgur.com/8OFw2Fa.png > > > > > > Do you have this issue on v6.1? > > > > I remember having boot problem at that time. > > What about v6.4? 6.4 works fine I down graded to it before linux 6.5.4 was released. no memory leak. today i ran my laptop for 6 hours and 40 mins and this memory leak is still happening at same rate. total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 15Gi 7.2Gi 2.8Gi 797Mi 6.4Gi 8.1Gi Swap: 0B 0B 0B Total: 15Gi 7.2Gi 2.8Gi this is a big problem.
I upgraded to 6.5.5 today and it's still not fixed yet.
(In reply to freeze0985 from comment #0) > Since 1st weak of Sept I have been observing memory leak in my system, so > after doing a little big of digging I found out that the leak is caused by > kmalloc. In Linux 6.5.3 memory leak would increase to nearly 50% of my ram > over a period of 6-9 hours. In the Newer Linux 6.5.4 I am yet to observe > that much memory leak(Haven't used my laptop for that long till now) but > over a period of 3 hours I see 2.2GB reserved and it is not used by any > program at all. this is just after 3 hours of usage on Linux 6.5.4. Slabtop > link: https://i.imgur.com/8OFw2Fa.png Can you attach that slabtop image here? The link above is broken.
(In reply to freeze0985 from comment #6) > Their was no problem iirc Then perform bisection. See Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst for how to do that.
(In reply to freeze0985 from comment #4) > GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q > GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P Just to be sure: you are not using Nvidia's driver, do you? But FWIW, a bisection would be really great. But given the time to spot this I guess that's won't be easy. Have you checked the net if there are any test debugging guides that explain how to see which kernel subsystem allocates all that memory?
(In reply to The Linux kernel's regression tracker (Thorsten Leemhuis) from comment #11) > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #4) > > GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q > > GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P > > Just to be sure: you are not using Nvidia's driver, do you? > > But FWIW, a bisection would be really great. But given the time to spot this > I guess that's won't be easy. Have you checked the net if there are any test > debugging guides that explain how to see which kernel subsystem allocates > all that memory? I have nvidia-dkms https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia-dkms/. But I am not using any application which would need nvidia.
(In reply to The Linux kernel's regression tracker (Thorsten Leemhuis) from comment #11) > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #4) > > GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q > > GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P > > Just to be sure: you are not using Nvidia's driver, do you? > > But FWIW, a bisection would be really great. But given the time to spot this > I guess that's won't be easy. Have you checked the net if there are any test > debugging guides that explain how to see which kernel subsystem allocates > all that memory? I have not read anything related to linux kernel subsytem allocation.
(In reply to Bagas Sanjaya from comment #9) > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #0) > > Since 1st weak of Sept I have been observing memory leak in my system, so > > after doing a little big of digging I found out that the leak is caused by > > kmalloc. In Linux 6.5.3 memory leak would increase to nearly 50% of my ram > > over a period of 6-9 hours. In the Newer Linux 6.5.4 I am yet to observe > > that much memory leak(Haven't used my laptop for that long till now) but > > over a period of 3 hours I see 2.2GB reserved and it is not used by any > > program at all. this is just after 3 hours of usage on Linux 6.5.4. Slabtop > > link: https://i.imgur.com/8OFw2Fa.png > > Can you attach that slabtop image here? The link above is broken. The Imgur link works. But anyways here is the new link: https://ibb.co/Kxj56LP.
(In reply to freeze0985 from comment #12) > I have nvidia-dkms https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia-dkms/. Then the upstream Linux kernel developer most likely won't help you. Please reproduce with a vanilla kernel. For details see: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/post/frequent-reasons-why-linux-kernel-bug-reports-are-ignored/ (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #13) > I have not read anything related to linux kernel subsytem allocation. I meant that you could search the net for guides that might be helpful to determine the source of those allocations.
it's literally vanila kernel
I will uninstall and observe kmalloc leak. btw this issue started on 6.5.3 iirc . i simply reported to an fork of linux and they said the problem is not with our fork but with upstream aka you guys.
(In reply to The Linux kernel's regression tracker (Thorsten Leemhuis) from comment #15) > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #12) > > I have nvidia-dkms > https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia-dkms/. > > Then the upstream Linux kernel developer most likely won't help you. Please > reproduce with a vanilla kernel. For details see: > https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/post/frequent-reasons-why-linux- > kernel-bug-reports-are-ignored/ > > (In reply to freeze0985 from comment #13) > > I have not read anything related to linux kernel subsytem allocation. > > I meant that you could search the net for guides that might be helpful to > determine the source of those allocations. Ok. I will try this out: https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/kmemleak.html . Goddammit it sucks to be the guy who finds the bug first
(In reply to freeze0985 from comment #16) > it's literally vanila kernel If you loaded out-of tree drivers (which you apparently have) it's not a vanilla kernel anymore (even if they are open source) -- and then upstream kernel developers often don't care. > Ok. I will try this out: https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/kmemleak.html Thx!
You guys were right, the dammed nvidia-dkms is the one to blame. it is causing kmalloc leak on my system. in fact i just reinstalled it and I saw unusual memory spike( haven't restarted yet).
before you guys close this, can you explain how is this possible that nvidia-dkms is causing issue when it's not being used. I have two graphics cards. Intel and nvidia 3060 mobile. I run my system on intel graphics and no application uses nvidia.