Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8

[Hans Reiser]

Nikita Danilov wrote:

> Dave Jones writes:
> > 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
>
> This could explain hangs, but hardly oopses. System just freezes due to
> out-of-memory.
Ah, thanks Nikita.

--
Hans


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/