Ben:

I still am not seeing the changes.  Which branch or tag do you use when
accessing the 2.8.2 release?

Becky

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote:

> I found a spot in the PINT_manager_complete_op function where Sam's patch
> removed a free(entry) at the end of the function.  I am going to contact Sam
> and see if he has any thoughts about that particular free that he removed.
>
> Becky
> See below, too!
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Benjamin Severs <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, June 30, 2011 15:42:28 Becky Ligon wrote:
>> >
>> http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs2-developers/attachments/2
>> > 0101020/068fd427/pint-mgmt-opid-cleanups-0001.obj
>> >
>> > Bart/Ben:
>> >
>> > Above is a link to the patch that was in the pvfs2-developers archive.
>>  It
>> > has alot more stuff in it than the patch that you just sent me.  In
>> > addition, Sam made a comment about the pint-mgmt.c change indicating
>> that
>> > memory would not be released unless other changes were made.  So, I'm
>> > thinking that the changes I applied to OrangeFS included everything that
>> > Sam intended and not just a quick solution.  Please take a look at this
>> > link and see if your code has these same changes.  These changes may be
>> > contributing to your memory problem, but we also think there still may
>> be
>> > something else as well.
>> >
>> > Becky
>>
>> Becky,
>>
>> The referenced pint-mgmt-opid-cleanups-0001.obj patch above is the exact
>> same
>> commit that I've identified as causing the memory leak.  If we revert that
>> change from the OrangeFS code, the memory leak ceases.  So, it appears
>> that
>> something isn't right with the changes Sam made.  When you said that Sam
>> made
>> a comment about the pint-mgmt.c change, was he talking in reference to
>> this
>> pint-mgmt-opid-cleanups-0001.obj change or the one Bart sent you that was
>> just
>> an early return on error.
>>
>
>
> He was referring to the early return on error, I think.
>
>
>>
>> Also, we are indeed testing with both the 2.8.2 branch and the latest
>> OrangeFS
>> code and both code bases have this change in them.
>>
>
> Okay.  Thanks.  I still haven't found the changes in the 2.8.2 branch but I
> may not be looking correctly.
>
> Becky
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Benjamin Severs
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Becky Ligon
> OrangeFS Support and Development
> Omnibond Systems
> Anderson, South Carolina
>
>
>


-- 
Becky Ligon
OrangeFS Support and Development
Omnibond Systems
Anderson, South Carolina
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