Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:57:49 +0200 | From | Olivier Sessink <> | Subject | Re: Serious allocating/freeing memory or ReiserFS problem in 2.4.10 |
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On 0, Veit Wahlich <cru@zodia.de> wrote: > Hi! > > When I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.9 to 2.4.10 I experienced the problem > described in this posting. Because I lack in time, I am not able to read > this mailing list regularly, so I do not know whether this problem is > known or not. Because I am short on time and this caused crashes on my > system I can not apply any screenshots/hardcopys but I will try to help > fetching information about this wherever I can. For this please contact > cru@zodia.de . > > I discovered this while using donkey (www.edonkey2000.com), a > non-opensource P2P solution applying a Linux client. Contact is > info@edonkey2000.com , I will forward this email to them. > > As donkey is a MFTP implementation it begins to "hash" all incomplete > files in the download queue when run. This means it reads the whole file > and builds a kind of checksum (as I suppose) of all segments that are > already downloaded. During this process, the amount of memory in use > steadily grows, while the memory used by all processes (including > donkey) stays nearly unchanged. Because I am running ReiserFS and donkey > is reading huge files, this could also be a ReiserFS problem. I have no > experience with donkey and kernels <2.4.9.
this is a problem specific to 2.4.10, I have the same problem (also using edonkey), 2.4.10pre8 doesn't have this problem. I don't know what changed, but 2.4.10 is not usable.
regards, Olivier
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