Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

From: Jaswinder Singh (jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 20:39:19 EST


There is some problem in my computer's clock . please do not mind .

I am sorry for inconvenience.

Jaswinder.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaswinder Singh" <jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com>; "Jamey Hicks"
<jamey@crl.dec.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Stephen L Johnson" <sjohnson@monsters.org>; "Jaswinder Singh"
<jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:03 PM
Subject: Fw: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

> I am sorry, i am sending this mail again because earlier my Computer's
time
> was not set properly.
>
> Jaswinder
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jaswinder Singh" <jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com>
> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "Linus Torvalds"
> <torvalds@transmeta.com>; "Jamey Hicks" <jamey@crl.dec.com>
> Cc: "Stephen L Johnson" <sjohnson@monsters.org>; "Jaswinder Singh"
> <jaswinder.singh@3disystems.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system
>
>
> > Dear Linus,
> >
> >
> > > What does /proc/slabinfo say? The most likely leak is a dentry leak or
> > > an inode leak, and both of those should be fairly easy to see in the
> > > slab info (dentry_cache and inode_cache respectively).
> > >
> >
> > I am attaching details before and during my application .
> >
> > Mainly changes are in dentry_cache and inode_cache , but i am attaching
> > whole /proc/slabinfo for your reference.
> >
> >
> > > Obviously, it could be a data page leak too, but such a leak should be
> > > easy to see by creating a few big files and deleting them..
> > >
> > > Linus
> >
> > I am also facing one more problem with ramfs.
> >
> > du and df shows 0 , so i am also attaching its output.
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Jaswinder.
> > --
> > These are my opinions not 3Di.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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