linux-kernel - Re: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612281930120.5917@raven.themaw.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:32:26 +0900 (WST)
From:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. 
 Have a nice day...

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> 
> I get this message in my webservers (with NFS mounted homedirs) logs once 
> in a while : 
> 
>   kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
> 
> It doesn't seem to have any bad effect on anything, but it would be nice 
> to know if there is any cause for concern.

It's at least a memory leak.

> 
> The NFS server is running 2.6.18.1 and the webservers are running 2.6.17.8

Strange, I've not heard of this message appearing for a long time now.

Ian

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