From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
To: E V <eliventer@gmail.com>, linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 4.8rc8 & OOM panic
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 20:37:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57F2A560.9070702@applied-asynchrony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57EC1DE1.90608@applied-asynchrony.com>
On 09/28/16 21:45, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On 09/28/16 20:46, E V wrote:
>> I just booted my backup box with 4.8rc8 and started an rsync onto
>> btrfs and it panic'd with OOM a couple hours later. I thought the OOM
>> problems from 4.7 we're supposed to be fixed in 4.8, or did I get that
>> wrong? No users or anything else on the system.
>
> Keep in mind that those problems are generic, other filesystems also
> suffer: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg114123.html
>
> I don't see any recent compaction-related patches in Linus' tree at
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/mm/
Sorry, that was not quite correct. -stable 4.7.x and 4.8 contain
a workaround (http://goo.gl/DiwfPH) that is supposed to help.
That went into 4.8rc8 already, so not sure what happened in your case.
> So unless they get merged in the last minute it looks like 4.8 will
> be DOA.
Running 4.8 final now, let's see what happens..
-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-03 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 18:46 4.8rc8 & OOM panic E V
2016-09-28 19:45 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-10-03 18:37 ` Holger Hoffstätte [this message]
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