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...the box leak so much RAM that the OOM killer starts to kick in. With slab alloc debugging turned on, we see this: # mount; ls -Rn; wait some seconds; Ctrl-C [root@lnxp-1038:/backend1]$ cat /proc/slab_allocators | egrep '(size.512|ocfs2_inode_cache)' | grep ocfs | sort -k 2 -n size-512: 1 o2hb_heartbeat_group_make_item+0x1b/0x79 [ocfs2_nodemanager] size-512: 1 o2hb_map_slot_data+0x22/0x2fa [ocfs2_nodemanager] size-512: 1 ocfs2_initialize_super+0x55e/0xd7f [ocfs2] size-512: 26439 ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock+0x2d1/0x423 [ocfs2] ocfs2_inode_cache: 26450 ocfs2_alloc_inode+0x13/0x29 [ocfs2] size-512: 52879 dlm_new_lockre...

All, This is hopefully the final drop of the patches for adding global heartbeat to the o2cb stack. The diff from the previous set is here: http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/global-hb-diff-2010-10-07 Implemented most of the suggestions provided by Joel and Wengang. The most important one was to activate the feature only at the end, Also, got mostly a clean run with checkpatch.pl. Sunil

I'm running a bit late with the e-mail this time around, but I think that's ok since there really isn't any major new features here - the bulk of the Ocfs2 update is bug fixes, or cleanups. The same goes for configfs. The only two things that could be described as features would be: - Sunil has updated Ocfs2 to provide even more live cluster locking information via debugfs. - Joel