From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:57:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:57:32 -0400 Received: from NET.WAU.NL ([137.224.10.12]:58374 "EHLO net.wau.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:57:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:57:49 +0200 From: Olivier Sessink Subject: Re: Serious allocating/freeing memory or ReiserFS problem in 2.4.10 In-Reply-To: <1001472028.805.92.camel@instructor.localnet>; from cru@zodia.de on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:40:26AM +0200 To: linux-kernel Cc: cru@zodia.de Message-id: <20010926225748.A20897@fender.fakenet> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline X-MSMail-priority: High User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-System-Uptime: 10:44pm up 45 days, 1:06, 1 user, load average: 1.34, 0.31, 0.10 X-Reverse-Engineered: High priority for sending SMS messages In-Reply-To: <1001472028.805.92.camel@instructor.localnet> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 0, Veit Wahlich 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 -- begin signature_virus.TXT.vbs Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :) end