From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryusuke Konishi Subject: Re: OOM while deleting very large files Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 01:18:37 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20080506.011837.81573783.ryusuke@osrg.net> References: <20080504165426.GA2826@laxu.de> Reply-To: NILFS Users mailing list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080504165426.GA2826-W0ZHf6uU1cg@public.gmane.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: users-bounces-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org Errors-To: users-bounces-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: users-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, alex-W0ZHf6uU1cg@public.gmane.org Hi Alex, Alexander Schier wrote Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 18:54:26 +0200 > Hi! > I had a large Nilfs2 (about 250 GB), and 2 files with about 100 GB in > it. When i tried to delete the file, either > rm bigfile1 > > or after it failed > > echo '' >bigfile1 > > the pc worked a long time, and then nilfs2 used so much ram, that the > kernel killed all programs, and finally the pc was unusable. It was not > possible to delete the files, other than reformatting the partition. > > At the moment, i can not do any further tests, because the partition is > now filled with useful files, and i do not want to fill the rest with > undeletable files. But maybe you can find the memleak(?) in the Source. > > Alex Thanks for reporting the above problem! It seems to be a likely problem. Unfortunately we are now in holiday periods in Japan (Golden Week holidays). So, I can't test it. I'd like to look into the problem after the holidays, maybe on Wednesday or Thursday. Before that, could you tell me some information on your PC ? e.g. NILFS version, kernel version, memory amount, and so on. Cheers, Ryusuke Konishi