Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 1997 11:49:18 -0400 | | From | Bill Hawes <> | | Subject | Re: Memory leak in 2.1.54 |
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Zlatko Calusic wrote: > Now I'll try to convince you, once more, that we deal here with > massive memory leak, too. Of course, I can be wrong, but something > smells very bad in dcache code. :)
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there _aren't_ memory leaks; I'm sure there are many waiting to be found. But in the case of 2.1.54, the dcache and inode memory can grow excessively and give the symptoms of a leak.
The ls -alR command is a good test case, as it floods the system with many new dentries and inodes, so it takes a while for the age-sorted reclamation to take place. I'm doing some experimentation with it now.
The patch I posted should help a lot, though it's not perfect yet.
Regards, Bill
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