Re: 2.2.12 memory leak

Chuck Mead (chuck@moongroup.com)
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 01:01:44 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Pete Harlan spewed into the bitstream:

> > > like on www.uk.linux.org's errata page? There's a whole lot of other
> >
> > I should do this. You want just the diff to include/linux/fs.h I think
> > I will update the errata sometime today/tomorrow
>
> Why not just release a 2.2.13 with nothing but this fix in it? We
> don't really want to get to where someone isn't safe grabbing the
> latest stable release of Linux without checking an errata page on
> uk.linux.org, but that was the case during 2.2.11's tenure.
>
> I had immediate problems with 2.2.11 (on Intel, both SMP and UP), and
> only occasional problems with 2.2.12, but it's embarrassing to have
> Linux stability trouble in front of the bean counters. Known bug
> fixes ought to spark a release, I'd think, just like 2.0.37-->2.0.38.
>
> (The 2.2.12 'trouble' was an out-of-memory condition just like 2.2.11.)

I don't want to resurrect this thread but what is causing this out of memory or
"leak" condition? I've been reading everything on the list trying to find what
the cause has been determined to be... I haven't found it clearly stated.

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