Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964808AbVIUVOt (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:14:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964843AbVIUVOt (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:14:49 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:58821 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964808AbVIUVOt (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:14:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:14:38 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Dipankar Sarma Cc: Christopher Friesen , Sonny Rao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , bharata@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2 Message-ID: <20050921211438.GC7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <433189B5.3030308@nortel.com> <43318FFA.4010706@nortel.com> <4331B89B.3080107@nortel.com> <20050921200758.GA25362@kevlar.burdell.org> <4331C9B2.5070801@nortel.com> <20050921210019.GF4569@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050921210019.GF4569@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 523 Lines: 15 On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:30:20AM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > unlink("./rename14"); > > close(fd); > > > > thread 2 spins doing: > > rename("./rename14", "./rename14xyz"); > > Ewww.. Looks like a leak due to a race. Looks like sillyrename being b0rken, if that's NFS... - 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/