Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:31:16 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8 |
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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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