Re: dentry_cache using up all my zone normal memory -- also seen on 2.6.14-rc2

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 16:15:09 EST


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:30:20AM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > unlink("./rename14");
> > close(fd);
> >
> > thread 2 spins doing:
> > rename("./rename14", "./rename14xyz");
>
> Ewww.. Looks like a leak due to a race.

Looks like sillyrename being b0rken, if that's NFS...
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