Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:16:09 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: fsstress causes memory leak in test6, test8 |
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:02:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It is not a "leak" as such - the dentries will get shrunk in normal usage > (create enough non-dir dentries and the "leaked" directory dentries will > get reclaimed). The really deep directories which fsstress creates > demonstrated the bug.
This could explain the random reiserfs oopses/hangs I was seeing several months back after running fsstress for a day or so. The reiser folks were scratching their heads, and we even put it down to flaky hardware or maybe even a CPU bug back then.
> Given that it took a year for anyone to notice, it's probably best that > this not be included for 2.6.0.
I agree in a "lets get 2.6 out the door" sense, but once thats 'out there' a user-level DoS should be fixed up pretty quickly. The paranoid could always run 2.6-mm I guess 8-)
Dave
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