Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

Andrew Morton
2005-04-06T01:24:08Z

Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I run the test(20 instances of fsx) with your patch on 2.6.12-rc1 with
> 512MB RAM (where I were able to constantly re-create the mem leak and
> lead to OOM before). The result is the kernel did not get into OOM after
> about 19 hours(before it took about 9 hours or so), system is still
> responsive. However I did notice about ~60MB delta between Active
> +Inactive and Buffers+cached+Swapcached+Mapped+Slab

yes.

Nobody has noticed the now-fixed leak since 2.6.6 and this one appears to
be 100x slower. Which is fortunate because this one is going to take a
long time to fix. I'll poke at it some more.