Re: Memory leak in XFS 1.0.1 ? Just mount and umount

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
> 
> When I mount and umount XFS heavily it seems that there are memory leaks.
> After about a day, the machine becomes quite slow and there is little free 
> memory left,
> the buffers and cached memory are almost exhausted.
> 
> for((i=1;i<10,000,000;i++));do
> mount -t xfs /dev/hda6  /mnt/xfs
> umount /mnt/xfs
> done
> 
> I use the 2.4.5 kernel with XFS 1.0.1 release.

There does appear to be a slow leak in the mount/unmount path, I have had the
loop running for an hour or so now, and memory does appear to be going 
somewhere. This is with a tree from yesterday's cvs tree.

Steve