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From: "Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@urpla.net>
To: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098]
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:30:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004250030.40867.hpj@urpla.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100424232320.71f764eb@galadriel.home>

On Saturday 24 April 2010, 23:23:20 Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:44:22 +0200 vous écriviez:
> > Greg, you might search for a server using xfs filesystems and and a
> > i586 kernel >= 2.6.33, (2.6.32.11 of SLE11-SP1 will serve as well),
> > log in as an ordinary user, do a "du" on /usr, and wait for the other
> > users screaming...
>
> I did precisely that, and didn't notice anything special (du on kernel
> source tree) kernel 2.6.32.11, deadline scheduler, 7 drives RAID-6
> array, 8GB RAM.

I guess, you're not on this specific openSUSE git version of 2.6.32.11 (e.g. 
the preparation for SP1 of SLE11), which, as usual, carries a lot of stuff 
from later kernels. The offending patch was included in linux-2.6.33 
between -rc4 and -rc5:

Committer
Alex Elder<aelder@sgi.com>
Author
Dave Chinner<david@fromorbit.com>
Author date
11.01.10 00:51
Parent
xfs: Avoid inodes in reclaim when flushing from inode cache
Child
xfs: Remove inode iolock held check during allocation
Branch
master origin (Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/...) 
Branch
2.6.33.1 (Linux 2.6.33) 
Follows
v2.6.33-rc4 (Linux 2.6.33-rc4)
Precedes
v2.6.33-rc5 (Linux 2.6.33-rc5)

Cheers,
Pete

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From: "Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@urpla.net>
To: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098]
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:30:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004250030.40867.hpj@urpla.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100424232320.71f764eb@galadriel.home>

On Saturday 24 April 2010, 23:23:20 Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:44:22 +0200 vous écriviez:
> > Greg, you might search for a server using xfs filesystems and and a
> > i586 kernel >= 2.6.33, (2.6.32.11 of SLE11-SP1 will serve as well),
> > log in as an ordinary user, do a "du" on /usr, and wait for the other
> > users screaming...
>
> I did precisely that, and didn't notice anything special (du on kernel
> source tree) kernel 2.6.32.11, deadline scheduler, 7 drives RAID-6
> array, 8GB RAM.

I guess, you're not on this specific openSUSE git version of 2.6.32.11 (e.g. 
the preparation for SP1 of SLE11), which, as usual, carries a lot of stuff 
from later kernels. The offending patch was included in linux-2.6.33 
between -rc4 and -rc5:

Committer
Alex Elder<aelder@sgi.com>
Author
Dave Chinner<david@fromorbit.com>
Author date
11.01.10 00:51
Parent
xfs: Avoid inodes in reclaim when flushing from inode cache
Child
xfs: Remove inode iolock held check during allocation
Branch
master origin (Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/...) 
Branch
2.6.33.1 (Linux 2.6.33) 
Follows
v2.6.33-rc4 (Linux 2.6.33-rc4)
Precedes
v2.6.33-rc5 (Linux 2.6.33-rc5)

Cheers,
Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-24 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-04 22:49 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-04 22:49 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-05  0:49 ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-05  0:49   ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-05 11:35   ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-05 11:35     ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-05 23:06     ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-05 23:06       ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-06 14:52       ` 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098] Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-06 14:52         ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-06 23:11         ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-06 23:11           ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-07  1:45           ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-07  1:45             ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-07 22:02             ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-07 22:02               ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-12 22:32               ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-12 22:32                 ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-13  8:50                 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-13  8:50                   ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-13  9:18                   ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-13  9:18                     ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-13  9:42                     ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-13  9:42                       ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-24 16:44                       ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-24 16:44                         ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-24 21:23                         ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-04-24 21:23                           ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-04-24 22:30                           ` Hans-Peter Jansen [this message]
2010-04-24 22:30                             ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2010-04-24 22:40                             ` [opensuse-kernel] " Justin P. Mattock
2010-04-24 22:40                               ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-04-24 22:41                             ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-04-24 22:41                               ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-04-25 13:04                             ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-04-25 13:04                               ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-04-25 16:27                         ` Greg KH
2010-04-25 16:27                           ` Greg KH
2010-04-25 16:57                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-04-25 16:57                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-04-25 18:18                             ` Greg KH
2010-04-25 18:18                               ` Greg KH
2010-04-26  0:36                           ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-26  0:36                             ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-27  0:02                             ` Greg KH
2010-04-27  0:02                               ` Greg KH
2010-04-26  0:32                         ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-26  0:32                           ` Dave Chinner

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