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SubjectRe: [showstopper] Memory leak in 2.2.1
Hi,

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:26:33 +0300, Oleg Drokin <green@ccssu.crimea.ua>
said:

> Hello!
> There is nasty memory leak in 2.2.1. Looks like it is in VFS.
> I have 4G partition, with a lot of files on it (squid cache)
> Whenever I try to copy it to another one, copying never finishes
> buffers and cached gets lower and lower (64M RAM), and finally
> I get messages like "no memory for bash" etc. Kernel is alive,
> but system is dead.

Not reproducible here, so could you possibly get me a bit of info which
might help? In particular, a sample of "vmstat 1" output while this is
happening would help, as would a

ps -lax
cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-state

while things are filling up.

Thanks,
Stephen

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