From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932084AbWIGPVp (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:21:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932072AbWIGPVo (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:21:44 -0400 Received: from mail.dsa-ac.de ([62.112.80.99]:59662 "EHLO mail.dsa-ac.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932084AbWIGPVn (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:21:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:21:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski To: sct@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, adilger@clusterfs.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > I've reported before in thread "[2.6.17.4] slabinfo.buffer_head increases" a > memory leak in ext3. Today I verified it is still present in 2.6.18-rc6. No, sorry, I cannot seem to reproduce it under -rc6. It seems to stabilize eventually. But it doesn't under -rc2. I looked through all commits to ext3 code between -rc2 and -rc6 and I don't see any obvious reasons why a memory leak may have been fixed. Unless somebody can sched some light on this, I'll try to upgrade the problematic system to -rc6 tomorrow. Just to be quite sure - this cannot (or is very unlikely to) be a libc bug, right? Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany