> Hello!
>
> There is nasty memory leak in 2.2.1. Looks like it is in VFS.
> I have 4G partition, with a lot of files on it (squid cache)
> Whenever I try to copy it to another one, copying never finishes
> buffers and cached gets lower and lower (64M RAM), and finally
> I get messages like "no memory for bash" etc. Kernel is alive,
> but system is dead.
> 100% reproducable. 2.0.36 is fine
> Hope that helps.
Not really. What filesystem you are using? How does 2.1.130 behave
(release prior to the latest VFS changes)? What about alt-sysrq? What
kind of buffers breeds? If you can cat /proc/slabinfo in process it would
give some idea on WTF happens. Please, give more details.
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