[Various] libc/1235: DB2 leaks mmaps

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sun Aug 29 15:40:00 GMT 1999


> 
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
> 
> > If it helps I can give you guys an arm/alpha account ?
> 
> Not really.  I have an ARM machine here at home but have to update the
> tools.  In any way I have to be familiar with the architecture to
> efficiently debug a program since in many cases you cannot use the
> normal debugger.  Therefore I do even try debugging unless I have such
> a machine.
> 

I can see the bug. BTW, you should see the bug on all platforms where 
HAVE_SPINLOCKS is not defined. Basically db will mmap a tmp file during
open. But it forgets to munmap it during close.

I will see what I can do. But I will be very busy for the next few
days.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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