From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261656AbTJ0MhE (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:37:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261684AbTJ0MhE (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:37:04 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42506 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261656AbTJ0MhB (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:37:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:36:49 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Hans Reiser Cc: Andrew Morton , Burton Windle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8 Message-ID: <20031027123649.GB27611@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , Burton Windle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds References: <20031026170241.628069e3.akpm@osdl.org> <20031027121609.GA27611@redhat.com> <3F9D1014.5000006@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F9D1014.5000006@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:31:16PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > >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 > >were scratching their heads, and we even put it down to flaky hardware > >or maybe even a CPU bug back then. > > > This means we failed to make a properly serious effort at replicating it > on our hardware. My apologies for that. It happens. > Who at Namessys was it that > investigated your bug report? Can't remember, it's in the archives somewhere. Dave -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk