Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8

[Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>]

Dave Jones writes:
 > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:02:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > 
 >  > It is not a "leak" as such - the dentries will get shrunk in normal usage
 >  > (create enough non-dir dentries and the "leaked" directory dentries will
 >  > get reclaimed).  The really deep directories which fsstress creates
 >  > demonstrated the bug.
 > 
 > This could explain the random reiserfs oopses/hangs I was seeing several
 > months back after running fsstress for a day or so. The reiser folks

This could explain hangs, but hardly oopses. System just freezes due to
out-of-memory.

 > were scratching their heads, and we even put it down to flaky hardware
 > or maybe even a CPU bug back then.

Of course we did, there are no bugs in reiserfs, you know. :)

 > 
 >  > Given that it took a year for anyone to notice, it's probably best that
 >  > this not be included for 2.6.0.
 > 
 > I agree in a "lets get 2.6 out the door" sense, but once thats 'out
 > there' a user-level DoS should be fixed up pretty quickly.
 > The paranoid could always run 2.6-mm I guess 8-)
 > 
 > 		Dave
 > 

Nikita.