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Bug#814320: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: Slab leak

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On 10/02/16 16:51, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: tag -1 patch
>
> On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 11:20 +0100, Josep M. Perez wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 4.3.5-1
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
> No it doesn't.
>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> The current kernel is having an apparent memory leak on my computer. Over time
>> it consumes all memory.
> [...]
>> The computer has 8 GB of memory. Previously I was able to run a virtualbox
>> instance of 32-bits Windows 7 with 2GB of memory with no issue. Now whenever I
>> do so the system slows down to a crawl and ultimately ends up killing the
>> virtual box processes.
> [...]
>
> Does this only happen when you run VirtualBox?
It always happens regardless of whether I am using VirtualBox. Since VB 
uses a lot of memory, it makes the problem much more visible. But if I 
do not run it at all, the kernel will eventually oops.

Cheers,
Josep M. Perez


>
> Ben.
>


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Bug#814320: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: Slab leak "Josep M. Perez" <josep.m.perez@bsc.es> - 2016-02-10 11:30 +0100
  Bug#814320: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: Slab leak "Josep M. Perez" <josep.m.perez@bsc.es> - 2016-02-10 17:40 +0100
  Bug#814320: marked as done (linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: Slab leak) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-02-12 21:40 +0100

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