Re: problems with grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-11-08 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
On 7 Nov 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > "Gregory S. Youngblood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The problem occurs with Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 with kernels 2.2.14, 2.2.16, > > and 2.2.17. These are the secure kernels that Mandrake provides. > > can you try with a 2.2.17 kernel rpm standard (no

Re: problems with grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-11-07 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Gregory S. Youngblood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem occurs with Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 with kernels 2.2.14, 2.2.16, > and 2.2.17. These are the secure kernels that Mandrake provides. can you try with a 2.2.17 kernel rpm standard (no smp no secure) ? -- MandrakeSoft Inc

problems with grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-11-07 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
et up as a gateway which is using rp-pppoe and acting as a gateway/firewall for a windows and linux machine in a small network. As well as using ipmasqadm for port forwarding. The system works flawlessly, for about 24 to 72 hours. Then I start getting: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached repea

grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

2000-09-04 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Hello all, as to the problem I described earlier about mysterios growing of the used inodes number - another strange thing happened. Without applying any patch or any changes in the system, the /proc/sys/fs/inode-max was set to 132000. System continued to increase the number in the /proc/sys/fs

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Re: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-09-01 Thread Michael Riepe
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:40:31AM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: [...] > > nlm_release_file() *does* grab the semaphore. That's the > > problem. > > Which is why I'm proposing a solution: to split it into 2 functions. >1st function does the semaphore manipulations and calls >2n

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Re: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-09-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Michael Riepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ugh. In that case, my personal preference would be to make >> nlm_release_file() grab the semaphore, then call another >> routine to do f_count-- and possible file cleanup which could >> also be called by nlmsvc_traverse_sh

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Re: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-08-31 Thread Michael Riepe
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:37:21AM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > " " == Michael Riepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:23:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust > > wrote: > >> Your patch does not seem correct to me. IMO you should rather > >> be calling

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Re: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-08-31 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Michael Riepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:23:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust > wrote: >> Your patch does not seem correct to me. IMO you should rather >> be calling nlm_release_file() in both cases where you applied >> 'put_file()'.

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Re: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-08-31 Thread Michael Riepe
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:23:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Your patch does not seem correct to me. IMO you should rather be > calling nlm_release_file() in both cases where you applied > 'put_file()'. No. In the first of two cases, lockd will call nlm_release_file() on its own when th

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Re: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-08-31 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Michael Riepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is an inode leak in lockd, caused by a reference counting > bug. It will appear when you use DOS/Windows clients to access > a knfsd+lockd based NFS server, and it will crash the server > sooner or later (a DOS at

[PATCH] Re: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-08-30 Thread Michael Riepe
Hello everybody, On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:00:19PM +0300, Leonid Mamtchenkov wrote: > Hello, > > In the archives of the lkml I have found a message from Peter Gervai > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dated Tue Apr 25 2000 available here: > http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week18/0317.ht

grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached - how to find/fix the inode leak?

2000-08-30 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Hello, In the archives of the lkml I have found a message from Peter Gervai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dated Tue Apr 25 2000 available here: http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week18/0317.html Unfortunately, I was not able to find any reply to that message. Currently, one of our