From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750711AbWIHHjI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 03:39:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750716AbWIHHjI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 03:39:08 -0400 Received: from mail.dsa-ac.de ([62.112.80.99]:18701 "EHLO mail.dsa-ac.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750711AbWIHHjE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 03:39:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:38:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski To: Andrew Morton Cc: sct@redhat.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak In-Reply-To: <20060907093417.54d2adf1.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20060907093417.54d2adf1.akpm@osdl.org> 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, Andrew Morton wrote: > It is expected that in this situation the number of buffer_head objects will > be approximately equal to the number of pagecache pages. So once the pagecache > has grown to consume all available memory and the kernel starts to perform pagecache > reclaim, the buffer_head count should stabilise. Ok, thanks that's exactly what I had to know - makes sense now. Sorry for a false alarm. Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany