linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)

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Message-Id: <1197560671.6895.17.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:44:31 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@....pl>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Osterried <osterried@...se.de>
Subject: Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)


On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 16:17 +0100, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> 

> BTW: Could someone please look at this problem? I feel little ignored and 
> in my situation this is a critical regression.

I was hoping to get around to it today, but I guess tomorrow will have
to do :-/

So, its ext3, dirty some pages, sync, and dirty doesn't fall to 0,
right?

Does it happen with other filesystems as well?

What are you ext3 mount options?



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