Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264315AbTKUHtn (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:49:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264319AbTKUHtn (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:49:43 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:61607 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264315AbTKUHtm (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:49:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:55:30 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: IWAMOTO Toshihiro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: O_DIRECT leaks memory on linux-2.6.0-test9 Message-Id: <20031120235530.3d09882f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031121073411.665A27007C@sv1.valinux.co.jp> References: <20031121061806.6A65F7007C@sv1.valinux.co.jp> <20031120231749.7cc3f245.akpm@osdl.org> <20031121073411.665A27007C@sv1.valinux.co.jp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 563 Lines: 13 IWAMOTO Toshihiro wrote: > > It'll take a while to leak a noticable amount of memory. So I reduced > the amount of memory using a boot option. Well I'll be darned. I took a new version of fsstress and it happens here too. We're leaking anonymous memory. -mm doesn't do any better, either. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/