From: Olivier Sessink <olivier@lx.student.wau.nl>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: cru@zodia.de
Subject: Re: Serious allocating/freeing memory or ReiserFS problem in 2.4.10
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:57:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010926225748.A20897@fender.fakenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1001472028.805.92.camel@instructor.localnet>; from cru@zodia.de on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:40:26AM +0200
In-Reply-To: <1001472028.805.92.camel@instructor.localnet>
On 0, Veit Wahlich <cru@zodia.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.9 to 2.4.10 I experienced the problem
> described in this posting. Because I lack in time, I am not able to read
> this mailing list regularly, so I do not know whether this problem is
> known or not. Because I am short on time and this caused crashes on my
> system I can not apply any screenshots/hardcopys but I will try to help
> fetching information about this wherever I can. For this please contact
> cru@zodia.de .
>
> I discovered this while using donkey (www.edonkey2000.com), a
> non-opensource P2P solution applying a Linux client. Contact is
> info@edonkey2000.com , I will forward this email to them.
>
> As donkey is a MFTP implementation it begins to "hash" all incomplete
> files in the download queue when run. This means it reads the whole file
> and builds a kind of checksum (as I suppose) of all segments that are
> already downloaded. During this process, the amount of memory in use
> steadily grows, while the memory used by all processes (including
> donkey) stays nearly unchanged. Because I am running ReiserFS and donkey
> is reading huge files, this could also be a ReiserFS problem. I have no
> experience with donkey and kernels <2.4.9.
this is a problem specific to 2.4.10, I have the same problem (also using
edonkey), 2.4.10pre8 doesn't have this problem. I don't know what changed,
but 2.4.10 is not usable.
regards,
Olivier
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2001-09-26 2:40 Serious allocating/freeing memory or ReiserFS problem in 2.4.10 Veit Wahlich
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