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

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Date:	Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:21:47 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak

On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:21, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>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.
>
I just had to restart x because I was playing with keyboard layouts, trying 
to get the alt keys to properly type the 3rd level chars and screwing it 
all up, and when I had done the restart, that line in slabinfo was 
somewhat reset:
[root@...ote root]# grep buffer_head /proc/slabinfo
buffer_head        46789  78858     48   78    1 : tunables  120   60    
0 : slabdata   1011   1011      0

And frankly I don't know enough about it to state it as a fact.  Time will 
tell though.

>Just to be quite sure - this cannot (or is very unlikely to) be a libc
>bug, right?
>
>Thanks
>Guennadi
>---------------------------------
>Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
>DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
>Pascalstr. 28
>D-52076 Aachen
>Germany
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