Re: (2.2.10): kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:00:32 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ulrich Windl wrote:

>Sep 3 07:00:45 kgate kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached
>Nov 11 07:01:51 kgate kernel: grow_inodes: inode-max limit reached

There is an inode leak in the VFS. I fixed it last week. My inode-max hard
limit showed the leak it to our eyes. In kernels _without_ the hard limit
(<2.2.14pre) the icache will silenty leak useful memory instead.

This is the fix.

ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/proposed/v2.2/2.2.13/inode-recycle-fixes.gz

(it will apply against most 2.2.x kernels)

Andrea

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