Re: Memory and rsync problem with vanilla 2.6.7

From: Grzegorz Kulewski
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 11:23:11 EST


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> >>>Well it doesn't seem to have caused too much trouble as yet... But it
> >>>is the obvious candidate if your problems continue. If you are not a
> >>>bk user, the attached patch will also revert that change.
> >>
> >>Thanks, I will test it soon and I will report results. But I am not saying
> >>it is a bug - maybe it is simply change that can lead to problems with
> >>insane debug options but itself is good?

It maybe helps but very little. I can sync now one time. The second time I
always get timeouts. Without this patch I nearly never can do this one
time.

Why the kernel keeps inodes and dentries even if it completly runs out of
memory?


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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