Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2

Andrew Morton
2004-07-29T21:06:40Z

kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) wrote:
>
> >Can you narrow the onset of the problem down to any particular kernel
> >snapshot?
>
> Did it and here is the answer.
>
> kernel-2.6.7 and bk's up to 2.6.7-bk7 survived a du -s,
> kernels starting with 2.6.7-bk8 did not.

I can reproduce this oom btw. Am (very, very slowly) working out what's
causing it. It's unrelated to the vfs-cache-pressure patch. I'd hope to
have it fixed up for 2.6.8.