Re: Memory issues again

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

You have 98 Mbytes chewed up in inode caches, I just happen to be looking into
problems in this area at the moment. XFS is not releasing inodes in the
same manner as other filesystems. Try this patch and let me know what
happens.

Steve


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Index: linux/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
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--- /usr/tmp/TmpDir.2645-0/linux/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c_1.502    Mon May 21 
11:00:44 2001
+++ linux/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c Mon May 21 10:50:35 2001
@@ -5133,6 +5133,10 @@
        vn_bhv_remove(VN_BHV_HEAD(vp), XFS_ITOBHV(ip));
        mrunlock(&ih->ih_lock);
 
+       if (!ip->i_update_core && (ip->i_itemp == NULL)) {
+               return xfs_finish_reclaim(ip, locked);
+       }
+
        if (locked) {
                xfs_ifunlock(ip);
                xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);