From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: John Stoffel <stoffel@lucent.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 - swapoff dies with OOM, why?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:58:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080547117.1137.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16487.35872.160526.477780@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 04:38, John Stoffel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've run into a strange situation here. I was having *terrible*
> performance while doing a complile of the 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 kernel on my
> system (Debian completely bleeding edge, plus udev and hotplug) along
> with dealing with a USB problem where if I removed my Cuzer USB
> device, it would never get de-allocated properly and the system load
> would start to hang.
Are you using ext3? 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 has a memory leak that affects ext3
code. Thus, after some uptime of disk intensive work, nearly all memory
is wasted up. Please, upgrade to latest -mm tree (which ATM is
2.6.5-rc2-mm4).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-29 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-29 2:38 John Stoffel
2004-03-29 4:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-29 15:02 ` John Stoffel
2004-03-29 16:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-29 22:02 ` John Stoffel
2004-03-29 22:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-29 7:58 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana [this message]
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