On Jun 11 23:37, Jesper Dahl Nyerup wrote:
We're still chasing the root cause in the kernel or the VServer patch set. We'll of course make sure to post our findings here, and I'd very much appreciate to hear about other people's progress.
We still haven't found a solution, but here's what we've got thus far:
The issue is not VServer specific. We're able to reproduce it on recent vanilla kernels.
The issue has a strong correlation with the number of processor cores in the machine. The behavior is impossible to provoke on a dual core workstation, but is very widespread on 16 or 24 core machines.
One of my colleagues has written a snippet of code that reproduces and exposes the problem, and we've sent this to the Inotify maintainers and the kernel mailing list, hoping that someone more familiar with the code will be quicker to figure out what is broken.
If anyone's interested - either in following the issue or the code snippet that reproduces it - here's the post: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1315430
As this is clearly a kernel issue, we're going to try to keep the discussion there, and I'll probably not follow up here, until the issue has been resolved.
Jesper.