Re: OOM while deleting very large files

[Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

Alexander Schier wrote:
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 18:53:31 +0200
> For the fixing later:
> PC: 
> CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1,6+
> RAM: 512 MB DDR RAM
> Nilfs2 Version (Module and Tools): 2.0.2
> Partition: 251 GB dmcrypt
> Files: 2x approx. 100 GB created with dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile, to
> erase the old content on the cryptopartition (the zeros are written
> encrypted to the real partition)

Thanks!

NILFS on dm-crypted partition!  Interesting.

> It is not so important, as i do not need to use such big files further,
> so you can have holydays ;).

Yeah, I will!

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi.

> Problem while deleting them as described:
> > > 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.
> 
> Now i'm using the same setup with a nilfs2 with "normal" files on it,
> filled to 11 GB (df -h), without any further problems. 
> 
> I do not want to
> experiment in a way, that the partition needs to be reformatted later
> again :/.
> 
> Alex