Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761280AbXLMPon (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:44:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753614AbXLMPog (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:44:36 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33051 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006AbXLMPof (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:44:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages) From: Peter Zijlstra To: Krzysztof Oledzki Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Thomas Osterried In-Reply-To: References: <200709290614.02918.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200712030936.25363.osterried@jesse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:44:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1197560671.6895.17.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 24 On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 16:17 +0100, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > > BTW: Could someone please look at this problem? I feel little ignored and > in my situation this is a critical regression. I was hoping to get around to it today, but I guess tomorrow will have to do :-/ So, its ext3, dirty some pages, sync, and dirty doesn't fall to 0, right? Does it happen with other filesystems as well? What are you ext3 mount options? -- 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/