Dave Jones writes:Ah, thanks Nikita.
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:02:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > It is not a "leak" as such - the dentries will get shrunk in normal usage
> > (create enough non-dir dentries and the "leaked" directory dentries will
> > get reclaimed). The really deep directories which fsstress creates
> > demonstrated the bug.
> > This could explain the random reiserfs oopses/hangs I was seeing several
> months back after running fsstress for a day or so. The reiser folks
This could explain hangs, but hardly oopses. System just freezes due to
out-of-memory.