From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
bharata@in.ibm.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Subject: Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:11:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050922031136.GE7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52ll1qkrii.fsf@cisco.com>
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:03:33PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Christopher> Digging in a bit more, it looks like the files are
> Christopher> being created/destroyed/renamed in /tmp, which is a
> Christopher> tmpfs filesystem.
>
> Hmm... could there be a race in shmem_rename()??
Not likely - in that setup all calls of ->unlink() and ->rename()
are completely serialized by ->i_sem on parent. One question:
is it dcache or icache that ends up leaking?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-22 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-21 16:26 dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 16:53 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 19:46 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:07 ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-21 20:27 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:49 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:59 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 20:58 ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-21 21:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-21 21:14 ` Al Viro
2005-09-21 21:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-21 21:25 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 21:29 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 21:25 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-21 22:03 ` Roland Dreier
2005-09-22 3:11 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-09-22 3:54 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 4:17 ` Al Viro
2005-09-22 14:47 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 15:16 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 18:12 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- new data point Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 18:27 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-22 19:03 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 19:18 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-22 21:37 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 21:44 ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-22 21:55 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-22 22:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-26 4:43 ` [PATCH/RFC] sysrq: updating console_loglevel Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-22 22:05 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Christopher Friesen
2005-10-04 19:43 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-04 20:02 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-10-05 4:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-30 22:03 ` dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory Christopher Friesen
2005-10-01 23:22 ` Marcelo
2005-10-02 6:04 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-10-02 19:55 ` Marcelo
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