Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:17:49 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT leaks memory on linux-2.6.0-test9 |
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IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp> wrote: > > recently I noticed that direct IO causes memory leaks with > linux-2.6.0-test9. > The program that causes memory leaks is "fsstress", which is > testcases/kernel/fs/fsstress in ltp-full-20031106.tgz (ftp from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltp/). > > fsstress does various file operations, and I found that the problem is > with the combination of write and dread (O_DIRECT read). > You should be able to reproduce the bug with the following command > line. > > $ while true; do ./fsstress -c -d /usr/src/test -z -f write=1 \ > -f dread=1 -f creat=1 -S -n 1000 -p 32; done
It seems OK here. Please take a copy of /proc/meminfo and /proc/slabinfo.
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