Re: [patch] inode leakage again

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:54:44 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Oleg Drokin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>> Oleg can you confirm me that this my new patch against 2.2.1 (or
>> 2.2.2-pre1) fix everything for you? I can't produce lockups or leakage
>> anymore here.
>I cannot reproduce neither lockup nor leakage.
>But I get "grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached"

Normal.

>and I cannot access any file anymore, I get above message again and again
>until I do sync.

Bingo. When you do sync you get everything back ok?

>Not very good result, I think

Not so bad ;). Probably we simply need to write back to disk some dirty
inode when we are very low on inodes. The next patch will handle this.

Andrea Arcangeli

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