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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:50:18 +0000
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: askernel2615@dsgml.com, Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
       Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
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       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, a.titov@host.bg,
       jamie@audible.transient.net
Subject: Re: More information on scsi_cmd_cache leak... (bisect)
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From: Tim Morley <tim@chaos.org.uk>
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Jens Axboe writes ("Re: More information on scsi_cmd_cache leak... (bisect)"):
> On Fri, Jan 27 2006, askernel2615@dsgml.com wrote:
> > Mine is also 2.6.15. Stock with debian patches.
> > 
> > In fact I believe ALL the reports are from 2.6.15.
> 
> Hmm so does it happen in 2.6.16-rc1 or not? And try the suggestion I
> made in the other, edit the sata driver for your device and set
> ordered_flush to 0 instead of 1.

FYI I've had the problem with 2.6.15 and 2.6.15.1. I'm using raid1 and
raid5 on 4 sata drives with an ICH7 controller on an ASUS P5LD2-VM.

I've just got a 2.6.16-rc1 built and it seems that it fixes it! My
scsi_cmd_cache is setting happily at 10 allocations and not moving.

Tim Morley
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