From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: pidns memory leak Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:41:36 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20091006040526.GA22923@us.ibm.com> <4ACAFD6A.3060008@fr.ibm.com> <20091008030828.GA18973@us.ibm.com> <4ACD9ECC.90508@fr.ibm.com> <20091009032928.GA2031@us.ibm.com> <4ACF381F.9050808@fr.ibm.com> <20091010013235.GA11904@us.ibm.com> <4AD2EBC7.2020109@fr.ibm.com> <20091014061533.GA23569@us.ibm.com> <20091102133326.e3dc51fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20091102223818.GA15628@us.ibm.com> <20091102144752.71fd4a31.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4AEFDAAE.500@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AEFDAAE.500@free.fr> (Cedric Le Goater's message of "Tue\, 03 Nov 2009 08\:24\:30 +0100") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Andrew Morton , "Serge E. Hallyn" , andrea@cpushare.com, Linux Containers , Daniel Lezcano , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Emelianov , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Cedric Le Goater writes: > On 11/02/2009 11:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:38:18 -0600 >> "Serge E. Hallyn" wrote: >> >>>> This bug hasn't been fixed yet, has it? >>> >>> Well Suka did trace the bug to commit 7766755a2f249e7, and posted a patch >>> to revert that, acked by Eric on Oct 20. Suka, were you going to repost >>> that patch? >> >> Ah. OK. Thanks. Found it in the backlog pile. > > We've added the patch to our patchset and we confirm that the pid_* leaks have > been reduced to 'nearly' nothing but we still have a lot of inodes and dentries > leaks. I hope to find some time to investigate and reproduce with a small > scenario, we are running a LTP like testsuite in a container environment. Does forcing a cache flush help with the other leaks? Eric