Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8

[Hans Reiser]

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


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