On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:44:55AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > OK, release managers, the memory leak primarily occurs in the device > mapper probing code, and an additional leak when there is a partition > which does not have a valid filesystem known to blkid. rpc.mountd is, > as far as I know, the first long-lived daemon using blkid, and it's > apparently using it in a somewhat "interesting" way which is the > system to constantly reprobe the disk information (if it is leaking > megabytes per minute). The patch looks reasonably sane and low risk > based on a on-paper examination of the code changes --- but if > nfs-kernel-server 1.0.12 isn't going into etch, I'd say it's > borderline whether or not we include this patch into the e2fsprogs > upload I was about to do.
No strong opinion either way; I'm more concerned that the e2fsprogs upload happens sooner rather than later, so that d-i RC2 doesn't get held up waiting for it. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
