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

To: "Harrison Xing" <xinghy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Memory leak in XFS 1.0.1 ? Just mount and umount
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:34:40 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from "Harrison Xing" <xinghy@hotmail.com> of "Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:35:47 +0800." <F113UddjoPIvkJDWrRo0000e1d8@hotmail.com>
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> 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




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