On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:48:16AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:42:23AM -0400, pryzbyj wrote: > > Hi Jeroen, > > > > Can you still reproduce this bug?
Yes, it's still present in etch. Didn't try past etch. > > cp -la takes big amounts of memory > > http://bugs.debian.org/412688 > > > > Is this directory tree deeply nested or something? What filesystem? ext3, not really deeply nested. Some directories with reasonable amonts of files in them (> 10k). > > I've set up a test dir with a million (empty) files and after copying > > 340k files see only a small variation in size of the process' memory > > space (it increased by ~500k then shrank and has now increased again). > > Can you [ls]trace the process and see if there's something unexpected > > happening? I can of course strace, but I'm not sure where to look at. > One more question. Is the memory usage monotonic over time (perhaps > indicitive of a leak) or does it go down (by how much?)? It's increasing pretty monotonic as far as I can see, and does not go down over time that I can see. But I could plot the memory usage versus time I guess... but not in the near future (weeks), as study is pretty busy lately. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
