Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:47:32 +0300 | Subject | Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8 |
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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.
> were scratching their heads, and we even put it down to flaky hardware > or maybe even a CPU bug back then.
Of course we did, there are no bugs in reiserfs, you know. :)
> > > Given that it took a year for anyone to notice, it's probably best that > > this not be included for 2.6.0. > > I agree in a "lets get 2.6 out the door" sense, but once thats 'out > there' a user-level DoS should be fixed up pretty quickly. > The paranoid could always run 2.6-mm I guess 8-) > > Dave >
Nikita.
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