Unfortunately this patch doesn't completely solve this problem, since the system will still be hosed due to all memory being used up by dentries. And I bet the OOM killer won't find the real target (du) but will kill anything before that. So the second part of the problem is to somehow limit the number of dentries used. Not easy...
At least with this patch (if I am reading it correctly), once the offending culprit is identified and the programs are killed off, everything will go back to normal without a reboot. Russ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
