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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: andrea@suse.de, mjbligh@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, sct@redhat.com,
	janetinc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:23:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405182325.5297ff87.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112720671.3522.6.camel@dyn9047017080.beaverton.ibm.com>

Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I run the test(20 instances of fsx) with your patch on 2.6.12-rc1 with
>  512MB RAM (where I were able to constantly re-create the mem leak and
>  lead to OOM before). The result is the kernel did not get into OOM after
>  about 19 hours(before it took about 9 hours or so), system is still
>  responsive. However I did notice about ~60MB delta between Active
>  +Inactive and Buffers+cached+Swapcached+Mapped+Slab

yes.

Nobody has noticed the now-fixed leak since 2.6.6 and this one appears to
be 100x slower.  Which is fortunate because this one is going to take a
long time to fix.  I'll poke at it some more.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-15 20:44 OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4 Noah Meyerhans
2005-03-15 21:56 ` Sean
2005-03-15 22:12   ` Lee Revell
2005-03-15 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-18 16:12   ` Noah Meyerhans
2005-04-13 13:47     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-14 16:56       ` Noah Meyerhans
2005-03-16  0:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-16 11:12   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-16 12:04   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 12:15     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 18:37     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-16 22:21       ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 19:53       ` OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests Mingming Cao
2005-03-23 22:49         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 23:13           ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-03-23 23:20             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 23:26               ` Andries Brouwer
2005-03-23 23:30                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-03-23 23:42                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-23 23:49                     ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-24  1:49                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-24  2:00                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-25 21:56         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-25 22:11           ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-27  0:23             ` Mingming Cao
2005-03-27 19:22               ` Mingming Cao
2005-03-27 20:06                 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-27 20:17                   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-26  0:17         ` Dave Jones
2005-03-26  0:20           ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-04-04  1:35         ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-04 16:50           ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-04 20:04             ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-04 20:24               ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-04-04 20:33                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-05 17:04               ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2005-04-06  1:23                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-04-12 12:50                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-05 16:44           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-16 12:23   ` OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4 Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 12:30   ` Andrew Morton

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