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Re: Memory consumption

To: Tom Carroll <tcarroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Memory consumption
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:41:52 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Tom Carroll <tcarroll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Thu, 24 May 2001 13:15:53 EDT." <20010524131553.B30044@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Hey,
> 
> I just compiled linux-2.4-xfs 24/05/2001 16:30 GMT.
> 
> The large memory consumption issue still exists.  The previous
> snapshot of /proc/slabinfo is accurate.
> 
> Any suggestions?
>       Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Tom Carroll

OK, if the machine survives the failing dump process does the filesystem
unmount afterwards? I will go an run some quick tests, but it smells of
a reference count leak - dump uses a backdoor open function rather
than pathnames, this is probably where the problem is.

Steve



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