Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)

[Krzysztof Oledzki]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 16:17 +0100, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> >
>
> > BTW: Could someone please look at this problem? I feel little ignored and
> > in my situation this is a critical regression.
>
> I was hoping to get around to it today, but I guess tomorrow will have
> to do :-/

Thanks.

> So, its ext3, dirty some pages, sync, and dirty doesn't fall to 0,
> right?

Not only doesn't fall but continuously grows.

> Does it happen with other filesystems as well?

Don't know. I generally only use ext3 and I'm afraid I'm not able to 
switch this system to other filesystem.

> What are you ext3 mount options?
/dev/root / ext3 rw,data=journal 0 0
/dev/VolGrp0/usr /usr ext3 rw,nodev,data=journal 0 0
/dev/VolGrp0/var /var ext3 rw,nodev,data=journal 0 0
/dev/VolGrp0/squid_spool /var/cache/squid/cd0 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/VolGrp0/squid_spool2 /var/cache/squid/cd1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/VolGrp0/news_spool /var/spool/news ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,data=ordered 0 0

Best regards,

				Krzysztof Olędzki