Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:21:47 -0400 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak |
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On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:21, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >> I've reported before in thread "[2.6.17.4] slabinfo.buffer_head >> increases" a memory leak in ext3. Today I verified it is still present >> in 2.6.18-rc6. > >No, sorry, I cannot seem to reproduce it under -rc6. It seems to > stabilize eventually. But it doesn't under -rc2. I looked through all > commits to ext3 code between -rc2 and -rc6 and I don't see any obvious > reasons why a memory leak may have been fixed. Unless somebody can sched > some light on this, I'll try to upgrade the problematic system to -rc6 > tomorrow. > I just had to restart x because I was playing with keyboard layouts, trying to get the alt keys to properly type the 3rd level chars and screwing it all up, and when I had done the restart, that line in slabinfo was somewhat reset: [root@coyote root]# grep buffer_head /proc/slabinfo buffer_head 46789 78858 48 78 1 : tunables 120 60 0 : slabdata 1011 1011 0
And frankly I don't know enough about it to state it as a fact. Time will tell though.
>Just to be quite sure - this cannot (or is very unlikely to) be a libc >bug, right? > >Thanks >Guennadi >--------------------------------- >Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. >DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH >Pascalstr. 28 >D-52076 Aachen >Germany >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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