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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cifs leaks memory like crazy in 2.5.61
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:16:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220171638.GC9800@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFEBDD7C2C.B0956D07-ON87256CD3.005C9BC9@us.ibm.com>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:56:04AM -0600, Steven French wrote:
> I run three file API tests regularly against it - fsx, the connecathon
> "nfs" tests and iozone and use them as a sort of regression test bucket
> (which unfortunately didn't pick this problem up) - as a result of this I
> will add "ls -R" of a deep directory tree to the list (ls -R of a shallow
> tree doesn't seem to show this problem up) - if there are other useful
> filesystem regression cases that I could automate and run, I would love to
> know about them.

Those are more stress tests, than regression tests.  You have to know
what you regressed from, and progressed to, before you have regression
tests.  ;-)

It sounds like unit tests are lacking...

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-20 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20 16:56 cifs leaks memory like crazy in 2.5.61 Steven French
2003-02-20 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-20 21:21 Steven French
2003-02-20 16:28 Steven French
2003-02-20 16:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-20 13:28 Martin Josefsson

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