linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609071657490.1700@pcgl.dsa-ac.de>
Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:21:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@...-ac.de>
To:	sct@...hat.com, akpm@...l.org, adilger@...sterfs.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak

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
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Pascalstr. 28
D-52076 Aachen
Germany
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