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

[Andrew Morton]

Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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