From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Klaus Dittrich <kladit@t-online.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:30:09 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730163007.GA2931@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040729140743.170acb3e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:07:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
Odd, because the only thing I can see which affects dcache related code
between -bk7 and -bk8 is the vfs-cache-pressure patch.
What are the exact steps you're using to reproduce the leak?
And where do you think the problem lies?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-26 15:06 dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 19:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 20:02 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 21:39 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 22:14 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-27 20:43 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-27 21:05 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-28 1:21 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28 15:06 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-29 3:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-29 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-30 16:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-07-30 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-31 2:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-31 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-31 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-03 6:55 ` Nick Piggin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-01 9:47 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-19 9:19 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-19 11:20 ` dentry cache leak? " bert hubert
[not found] ` <20040719113228.GA15295@outpost.ds9a.nl>
2004-07-19 12:56 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
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