Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266302AbUFUQWL (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:22:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266299AbUFUQWL (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:22:11 -0400 Received: from [80.72.36.106] ([80.72.36.106]:21126 "EHLO alpha.polcom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266302AbUFUQWI (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:22:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:22:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Grzegorz Kulewski To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Memory and rsync problem with vanilla 2.6.7 In-Reply-To: <40D5A305.80807@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20040426013944.49a105a8.akpm@osdl.org> <40D508E8.2050407@yahoo.com.au> <40D5A305.80807@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 28 On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > >>>Well it doesn't seem to have caused too much trouble as yet... But it > >>>is the obvious candidate if your problems continue. If you are not a > >>>bk user, the attached patch will also revert that change. > >> > >>Thanks, I will test it soon and I will report results. But I am not saying > >>it is a bug - maybe it is simply change that can lead to problems with > >>insane debug options but itself is good? It maybe helps but very little. I can sync now one time. The second time I always get timeouts. Without this patch I nearly never can do this one time. Why the kernel keeps inodes and dentries even if it completly runs out of memory? Thanks, Grzegorz Kulewski - 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/