[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 is still eating memory

[Sunil Mushran]

If you are running a prod shop, you should looking into buying support.

John Lange wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:46 -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>   
>> Well, kswapd is supposed to flush the caches. As in, the vm
>> controls the lifetime of the inodes in the inode_cache not ocfs2.
>>
>> All ocfs2 can do is free the memory associated with the inode when
>> asked to. And it does that when you manually flush the cache. Qs is
>> why the vm is not doing it on its own. (fwiw, you are on a beta kernel.)
>>     
>
> We are using beta kernels in an attempt to solve this problem. As
> everyone knows, the most recent official SUSE kernel (2.6.16.21-0.25 i
> believe?) completely broke ocfs2. Downgrading to 2.6.16.21-0.15 solves
> that problem but the memory issue remains.
>
> So as far as I am aware, there is no SUSE kernel that works with ocfs2
> which is where we find ourselves today.
>
> I just upgraded to the latest KOTD:
>
> 2.6.16.42-SLES10_SP1_BRANCH_20070307114604-smp
>
> And still, when running ocfs2, all ram gets consumed.
>
> Right now Novell is playing the "you don't have premium support" game so
> where should I report this bug?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Lange
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