From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o3OMSpk2189922 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:28:51 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1B9258C3161 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id pG3boNtgKuTugY9J for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:30:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Hans-Peter Jansen" Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098] Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:30:40 +0200 References: <201004050049.17952.hpj@urpla.net> <201004241844.23482.hpj@urpla.net> <20100424232320.71f764eb@galadriel.home> In-Reply-To: <20100424232320.71f764eb@galadriel.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201004250030.40867.hpj@urpla.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Emmanuel Florac Cc: Nick Piggin , opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org, Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Saturday 24 April 2010, 23:23:20 Emmanuel Florac wrote: > Le Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:44:22 +0200 vous =E9criviez: > > Greg, you might search for a server using xfs filesystems and and a > > i586 kernel >=3D 2.6.33, (2.6.32.11 of SLE11-SP1 will serve as well), > > log in as an ordinary user, do a "du" on /usr, and wait for the other > > users screaming... > > I did precisely that, and didn't notice anything special (du on kernel > source tree) kernel 2.6.32.11, deadline scheduler, 7 drives RAID-6 > array, 8GB RAM. I guess, you're not on this specific openSUSE git version of 2.6.32.11 (e.g= . = the preparation for SP1 of SLE11), which, as usual, carries a lot of stuff = from later kernels. The offending patch was included in linux-2.6.33 = between -rc4 and -rc5: Committer Alex Elder Author Dave Chinner Author date 11.01.10 00:51 Parent xfs: Avoid inodes in reclaim when flushing from inode cache Child xfs: Remove inode iolock held check during allocation Branch master origin (Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/...= ) = Branch 2.6.33.1 (Linux 2.6.33) = Follows v2.6.33-rc4 (Linux 2.6.33-rc4) Precedes v2.6.33-rc5 (Linux 2.6.33-rc5) Cheers, Pete _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs