> I sent this out yesterday, and never got a reply. Normally, I'd be far more
> patient, but I'm afraid that by now people have forgotten about it, and I'm
> under a LOT of pressure by management to get this fixed soon.
>
> To recap my previous e-mail, every time I access a file, 4k of memory gets
> allocated, and never gets freed, to the point of eventually triggering the
> OOM killer. I don't know nearly enough about the VM to debug this myself,
> so even a pointer to where to start looking would be helpful.
Write C code to reproduce this on normal machine, and post it to
bugtraq (its DoS, after all). Pretty aggresive but sure to get fixed
*fast*.
The same without going bugtraq should suffice, through.
Pavel
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