From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:19:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from spitz.ucw.cz (gprs189-60.eurotel.cz [160.218.189.60]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l0N9JCqw029313 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:19:15 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:37:35 +0000 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2 Message-ID: <20070122133735.GB4493@ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > > Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this > happens every time! > > Anything to try? Any other output needed? Can someone shed some light on > this situation? Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html