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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Reiserfs developers mail-list <Reiserfs-Dev@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Recursive chmod/chown OOM kills box with 32MB RAM
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:11:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DDAE2D.6080300@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601281811.35690.vda@ilport.com.ua>

Chris, would Denis Vlasenko wrote:

>[CCing namesys]
>
>Narrowed it down to 100% reproducible case:
>
>	chown -Rc 0:<n> .
>
>in a top directory of tree containing ~21938 files
>on reiser3 partition:
>
>	/dev/sdc3 on /.3 type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
>
>causes oom kill storm. "ls -lR", "find ." etc work fine.
>
>I suspected that it is a leak in winbindd libnss module,
>but chown does not seem to grow larger in top, and also
>running it under softlimit -m 400000 still causes oom kills
>while chown's RSS stays below 4MB.
>--
>vda
>
>
>  
>
Chris, would you like to handle this?

Thanks,

Hans

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-30  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-28 14:13 Recursive chmod/chown OOM kills box with 32MB RAM Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-28 15:01 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-28 16:11   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-30  6:11     ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2006-01-30 12:28       ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01 15:21         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-02-03  6:21           ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-30 13:22       ` Chris Mason
2006-01-21 23:20         ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-02 15:17           ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-02 19:34             ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-01  7:32         ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01  7:42           ` Hans Reiser
2006-02-02 19:26           ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-01  7:42         ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01 10:15           ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01 11:45             ` Vitaly Fertman
2006-02-01 14:25               ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01 14:59                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01 11:52             ` Edward Shishkin
2006-02-01 14:26               ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01 14:57                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-01 15:14                   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-02-01 15:28                     ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-02  7:25         ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-02  9:42           ` Vitaly Fertman
2006-02-02 11:52             ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-02 19:32           ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-03  5:57             ` Denis Vlasenko

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