After some recent testing, it looks like there is a server-side memory leak
in the latest OrangeFS release. We have seen servers whose memory climbs
without bound while the server daemon is running.

I have a test case that is fairly simple. There is one RHEL5.5 64bit server
and a single matching client both built from the 2.8.4 release tarball; the
server config is attached. Create a simple file - mine is described below -
and run the attached bash script (create-delete-loop.bash) against it.

Memory is continuously leaked as seen by the chart I also attached. I tested
this with the server's TroveMethod set to directio and alt-aio, and it
appears to leak memory at the same rate.

The file my test is using was created by this command:
for i in `seq 1 65536`; do echo -n "b" >> b.txt ; done

Bart.

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