Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756521AbXLMQR5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:17:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757541AbXLMQRr (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:17:47 -0500 Received: from bizon.gios.gov.pl ([212.244.124.8]:47939 "EHLO bizon.gios.gov.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755791AbXLMQRq (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:17:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:16:47 +0100 (CET) From: Krzysztof Oledzki X-X-Sender: olel@bizon.gios.gov.pl To: Peter Zijlstra cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Thomas Osterried , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages) In-Reply-To: <1197560671.6895.17.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <200709290614.02918.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200712030936.25363.osterried@jesse.de> <1197560671.6895.17.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-187430788-144257041-1197562607=:24173" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1736 Lines: 54 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---187430788-144257041-1197562607=:24173 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 16:17 +0100, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: >> > >> BTW: Could someone please look at this problem? I feel little ignored an= d >> 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 :-/ Thanks. > So, its ext3, dirty some pages, sync, and dirty doesn't fall to 0, > right? Not only doesn't fall but continuously grows. > Does it happen with other filesystems as well? Don't know. I generally only use ext3 and I'm afraid I'm not able to=20 switch this system to other filesystem. > What are you ext3 mount options? /dev/root / ext3 rw,data=3Djournal 0 0 /dev/VolGrp0/usr /usr ext3 rw,nodev,data=3Djournal 0 0 /dev/VolGrp0/var /var ext3 rw,nodev,data=3Djournal 0 0 /dev/VolGrp0/squid_spool /var/cache/squid/cd0 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,= data=3Dwriteback 0 0 /dev/VolGrp0/squid_spool2 /var/cache/squid/cd1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime= ,data=3Dwriteback 0 0 /dev/VolGrp0/news_spool /var/spool/news ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,data= =3Dordered 0 0 Best regards, =09=09=09=09Krzysztof Ol=EAdzki ---187430788-144257041-1197562607=:24173-- -- 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/