Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-30 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
Hi, After testing with patch-2.4.2-ac28, the df commands works fine on a dir mounted as ramfs. Also, it recognizes the limits set, etc. Thanks to David Gibson, Alan and others for making this available. Regards Amit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Amit D Chaudhary wrote: > >(none):/mnt/ramfs/root# df -h /mnt/ramfs/ > >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >ramfs0 0 0 - /mnt/ramfs > I am not sure, how related this is, but we have / on ramfs and using rpm > to

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > What does /proc/slabinfo say? The most likely leak is a dentry leak or > > an inode leak, and both of those should be fairly easy to see in the > > slab info (dentry_cache and inode_cache respectively). > > > > I am attaching details before and

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Amit D Chaudhary wrote: (none):/mnt/ramfs/root# df -h /mnt/ramfs/ FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on ramfs0 0 0 - /mnt/ramfs I am not sure, how related this is, but we have / on ramfs and using rpm to install(-iUvh)

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Jaswinder Singh wrote: What does /proc/slabinfo say? The most likely leak is a dentry leak or an inode leak, and both of those should be fairly easy to see in the slab info (dentry_cache and inode_cache respectively). I am attaching details before and during my

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-30 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
Hi, After testing with patch-2.4.2-ac28, the df commands works fine on a dir mounted as ramfs. Also, it recognizes the limits set, etc. Thanks to David Gibson, Alan and others for making this available. Regards Amit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
>(none):/mnt/ramfs/root# df -h /mnt/ramfs/ >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >ramfs0 0 0 - /mnt/ramfs I am not sure, how related this is, but we have / on ramfs and using rpm to install(-iUvh) fails with the mesages, need 12K on / Amit -

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
OTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen L Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:03 PM Subject: Fw: Memory leak in the ramfs file system > I am sorry, i am sending this mail again because ea

Fw: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
y Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen L Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system > Dear Linus, > > > > What does /pr

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Linus, > What does /proc/slabinfo say? The most likely leak is a dentry leak or > an inode leak, and both of those should be fairly easy to see in the > slab info (dentry_cache and inode_cache respectively). > I am attaching details before and during my application . Mainly changes are

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen L Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A group of us from the handhelds.org site think that we have found a memory >leak in the ramfs file system. After a long period of create and deleting >small files in a mounted ramfs partiti

Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Stephen L Johnson
A group of us from the handhelds.org site think that we have found a memory leak in the ramfs file system. After a long period of create and deleting small files in a mounted ramfs partition we have substantially less freemem. The problem has been confirmed on 2.4.2 on an i386 and StormARM

Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Stephen L Johnson
A group of us from the handhelds.org site think that we have found a memory leak in the ramfs file system. After a long period of create and deleting small files in a mounted ramfs partition we have substantially less freemem. The problem has been confirmed on 2.4.2 on an i386 and StormARM

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen L Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A group of us from the handhelds.org site think that we have found a memory leak in the ramfs file system. After a long period of create and deleting small files in a mounted ramfs partition we have substantially less

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Linus, What does /proc/slabinfo say? The most likely leak is a dentry leak or an inode leak, and both of those should be fairly easy to see in the slab info (dentry_cache and inode_cache respectively). I am attaching details before and during my application . Mainly changes are in

Fw: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
TECTED] Cc: "Stephen L Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Jaswinder Singh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system Dear Linus, What does /proc/slabinfo say? The most likely leak is a dentry leak or an inode le

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
TECTED] Cc: "Stephen L Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Jaswinder Singh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:03 PM Subject: Fw: Memory leak in the ramfs file system I am sorry, i am sending this mail again because earlier my Computer's time was not set properly

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
(none):/mnt/ramfs/root# df -h /mnt/ramfs/ FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on ramfs0 0 0 - /mnt/ramfs I am not sure, how related this is, but we have / on ramfs and using rpm to install(-iUvh) fails with the mesages, need 12K on / Amit - To