Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:30:20 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 |
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:59:30PM -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Sonny Rao wrote: > > >Over one million files open at once is just asking for trouble on a > >lowmem-crippled x86 machine, IMHO. > > I don't think there actually are. I ran the testcase under strace, and > it appears that there are two threads going at once. > > thread 1 spins doing the following: > fd = creat("./rename14", 0666); > unlink("./rename14"); > close(fd); > > thread 2 spins doing: > rename("./rename14", "./rename14xyz");
Ewww.. Looks like a leak due to a race.
Does this happen on a non-nfs filesystem ?
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