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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich)
Cc: ahu@ds9a.nl, kladit@t-online.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:06:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040725180648.30a6f3f4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40FBC4E9.2000504@xeon2.local.here>

kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) wrote:
>
> The fs is ext2.cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state
>  Output of  cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state before and after processes got 
>  killed.
>  891083  888395  45      0       0       0
>  1142933 1085759 45      0       0       0

This bug is probably unique to yourself and a couple of other people.  If
it was hitting everyone, all the machines in the world would be going oom
during the nightly updatedb run.

Can you try a different compiler version?  And try disabling any "unusual"
config options, such as filesystem quotas, extended attributes, etc?

Can you narrow the onset of the problem down to any particular kernel
snapshot?

Try disabling laptop_mode, if it's set.

Carefully review the logs for any oopses: oopsing while holding
shrinker_sem will do this for sure.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-26  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-19  9:19 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-19 11:20 ` dentry cache leak? " bert hubert
     [not found]   ` <20040719113228.GA15295@outpost.ds9a.nl>
2004-07-19 12:56     ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26  1:06       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-26 15:06 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 19:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 20:02   ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 20:38     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 21:39       ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 22:14         ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-27 20:43           ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-27 21:05             ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-28  1:21               ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28 15:06                 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-29  3:31                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-29 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-30 16:30   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-30 19:47     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-31  2:01       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-31 17:23       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-31 21:39         ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-03  6:55           ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-01  9:47 Klaus Dittrich

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