Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261798AbVDOKOx (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:14:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261799AbVDOKOx (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:14:53 -0400 Received: from outpost.ds9a.nl ([213.244.168.210]:37054 "EHLO outpost.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261798AbVDOKOk (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:14:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:12:38 +0200 From: bert hubert To: Eduard de Boer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MD / RAID5: Memory leak? Message-ID: <20050415101238.GA15358@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mail-Followup-To: bert hubert , Eduard de Boer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <30e555b5050415010015ddbcf4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <30e555b5050415010015ddbcf4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 22 On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:00:39AM +0200, Eduard de Boer wrote: > I use rsync to copy a bunch of files (several GB's) to the designated > filesystems. But after a while, all file systems get corrupted and > 'dmesg' lists all kinds of memory corruptions in 'dm' and so on. > Hence, the file copying stops. That doesn't sound like a memory leak per se. Can you watch the contents of /proc/slabinfo ? Or perhaps compare before/after a copy and check if one of the entries has grown huge. Also, if you are able, can you let the machine run memtest86 for a night? Do you see activity of the OOM-killer? -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services - 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/