From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261601AbTJ0MbU (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:31:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261626AbTJ0MbU (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:31:20 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:28101 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261601AbTJ0MbS (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:31:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9D1014.5000006@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:31:16 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Andrew Morton , Burton Windle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8 References: <20031026170241.628069e3.akpm@osdl.org> <20031027121609.GA27611@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031027121609.GA27611@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: >On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:02:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It is not a "leak" as such - the dentries will get shrunk in normal usage > > (create enough non-dir dentries and the "leaked" directory dentries will > > get reclaimed). The really deep directories which fsstress creates > > demonstrated the bug. > >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. Who at Namessys was it that investigated your bug report? -- Hans