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Re: 2.4.13 Mem Related Hangs

To: Mihai RUSU <dizzy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.4.13 Mem Related Hangs
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 13 Dec 2001 15:59:38 -0600
Cc: Linux XFS List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 16:01, Mihai RUSU wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> > You might want to sync up with the latest kernel when you get a chance,
> > a couple of nasty bugs in the I/O path got squashed this week. I will
> > ask Eric to update the 2.4.16 patches so that cvs is not the only way
> > to get to this.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> Hi Steve
> 
> are this bugs present in the 1.0.2 Release too ?
> im using 2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2 and im wondering if i need to upgrade it

The memory leak is not there, there is a deadlock triggered by an ext3
test program, but you need to mmap a chunk of a file, and then do a 
write into the file using that mmapped chunk as the write buffer, and
the two need to overlap!

Steve


> 
> thank you
> 
> ----------------------------
> Mihai RUSU
> "... and what if this is as good as it gets ?"
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Steve Lord                                      voice: +1-651-683-3511
Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@xxxxxxx


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