Re: another problem with latest code drops

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:20:19PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> I just ran up the same load in a UML session. I'd say it's this
> slab:
> 
>   2482   2481  99%    0.23K    146       17       584K xfs_btree_cur
> 
> which is showing a leak. It is slowly growing on my system
> and dropping the caches doesn't reduce it's size. At least it's
> a place to start looking - somewhere in the new btree code we
> seem to be leaking a btree cursor....

I've been running

for i in $(seq 1 8); do
        fsstress -p 64 -n 10000000 -d /mnt/data/fsstress.$i &
done

for about 20 hours now, and I'm only up to a few hundred xfs_btree_cur
entires, not changing much at all over time.  This is xfs-2.6 on a 4-way
PPC machine.