Re: Very rapid _INODE_LEAK_ in 2.2.14|13...

From: Chip Salzenberg (chip@valinux.com)
Date: Sat Jan 15 2000 - 17:55:21 EST


According to Joe Cooper:
> I've been running some squid benchmarks here using polygraph, and have
> found that 2.2.14 (or possibly squid 2.2.STABLE5) seems to have a huge
> inode leak.

I've seen this too. It's irritating to have to reboot my colo server
twice a week; it's like I'm using NT or something. :-(

> The rate of growth is about 30-60 per second depending on how much
> data is flowing in and out on the network.

My observed rate is more like one per minute, with occasional faster
bursts. I haven't managed to correlate any particular activity to the
bursts.

To summarize what we know so far:

  * The leak affects 2.2.13 and 2.2.14, at least.

  * The leak occurs when the high-activity filesystem is either ext2
    or reiserfs, so it's probably in the fs-independent code.

  * The leak rate varies depending on system activity.

Anything else?

-- 
Chip Salzenberg          - a.k.a. -           <chip@valinux.com>
        "He's Mr. Big of 'Big And Tall' fame."  // MST3K

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