>> It is fixed in the current kernel and Novell has patches for SLED 11.

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> One other thing. uvcvideo (cheese) does not continue to leak but my

> userspace stuff did. I believe that is because uvcvideo uses an urb

> pool, so reuses the urbs. I could not, but maybe you can in your app

> and that may be a work-around for this leak consuming all memory. This

> might be useful if you cannot upgrade your kernel beyond 2.6.27....

>

Oops, never mind. The leak is in usb urbs, not usbdevfs urbs, so you

cannot fix the leak without changing a kernel driver (devio.c) to

reuse urbs. But it does explain why cheese/uvcvideo does not leak

until the system crashes - just when it starts up. Changing devio.c to

reuse urbs is probably more effort than fixing the real cause and

patching ehci as described in the earlier link.
Regards, Steve

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