[uml-devel] Re: UML fills /tmp irreversibly (2.6.9-bb4 on SuSE 9.2)

["Armin M. Warda" <Armin.Warda@gmx.de>]

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  Hi,

just tried again with SuSE host kernel 2.6.8-24.10: same problem.

(Is 2.6.8-24.10 a 2.6.8 with back-ported fixes from 2.6.10 ?)

  Armin.

On Thursday 16 December 2004 20:13, Paolo Giarrusso wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2004 19:36, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > > Well, this matches some other reports of a different problem
> > > (impossible to unmount a fs used by UML) which probably relates
> > > to 2.6.9 host bugs.
> > >
> > > I'd suggest trying to reproduce the bug with a 2.6.8.1 +
> > > SKAS3-v7 patch, or checking what's different in the SuSE kernel
> > > from vanilla 2.6.8.1 (I'm particularly suspiscious about the
> > > TASK_TRACED introduction).
> >
> > The suse 2.6.8 kernel is actually 2.6.9-rc2, thus more close to
> > 2.6.9 than 2.6.8.  Especially it already has the TASK_TRACED
> > stuff and I've used the 2.6.9 version of the skas v7 patch
> >
> > (and also thats why I've
> > suggested to check against 2.6.9 not 2.6.8.1 vanilla to see if
> > the issue is still there).
>
> Remember that there was an invisible reference from died UMLs that
> kept the tmpfs from being unmounted (multiply reported, I
> experienced that too). Well, it the file is kept used, then it will
> keep using the tmpfs space. So nothing new....

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