From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267446AbUG2VGk (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:06:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267440AbUG2VFN (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:05:13 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:26799 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267425AbUG2VEW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:04:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:07:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2 Message-Id: <20040729140743.170acb3e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040726150615.GA1119@xeon2.local.here> References: <20040726150615.GA1119@xeon2.local.here> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) wrote: > > >Can you narrow the onset of the problem down to any particular kernel > >snapshot? > > Did it and here is the answer. > > kernel-2.6.7 and bk's up to 2.6.7-bk7 survived a du -s, > kernels starting with 2.6.7-bk8 did not. I can reproduce this oom btw. Am (very, very slowly) working out what's causing it. It's unrelated to the vfs-cache-pressure patch. I'd hope to have it fixed up for 2.6.8.