Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 18:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on > > > 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 > > > hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing processes one by one. I > > > could reproduce this problem very constantly on a 2 way PIII 700MHZ with > > > 512MB RAM. Also the problem could be reproduced on running the same test > > > on reiser fs. > > > > > > The fsx command is: > > > > > > ./fsx -c 10 -n -r 4096 -w 4096 /mnt/test/foo1 & > > > > > > This ext3 bug goes all the way back to 2.6.6. > > > I don't know yet why you saw problems with reiser3 and I'm pretty sure I > > saw problems with ext2. More testing is needed there. > > > > We (Janet and I) are chasing this bug as well. Janet is able to > reproduce this bug on 2.6.9 but I can't. Glad to know you have nail down > this issue on ext3. I am pretty sure I saw this on Reiser3 once, I will > double check it. Will try your patch today.
There's a second leak, with similar-looking symptoms. At ~50 commits/second it has leaked ~10MB in 24 hours, so it's very slow - less than a hundredth the rate of the first one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/