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 p2NM10qU118563 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:01:05 -0500 Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id CCE1C159F692 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.141]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id bIYegvyu23J8uSJ8 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:03:45 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: XFS memory allocation deadlock in 2.6.38 Message-ID: <20110323220345.GD26611@dastard> References: <081DDE43F61F3D43929A181B477DCA95639B52E8@MSXAOA6.twosigma.com> <20110322232504.GC15270@dastard> <081DDE43F61F3D43929A181B477DCA95639B532C@MSXAOA6.twosigma.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <081DDE43F61F3D43929A181B477DCA95639B532C@MSXAOA6.twosigma.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Sean Noonan Cc: "'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'" , Martin Bligh , Trammell Hudson On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 05:33:36PM -0400, Sean Noonan wrote: > > What is the configuration of the machine you are testing on? I can't > > reproduce this on a current 2.6.39-tot tree on a 2p/2GB RAM VM that > > has it's blockdev images on a single SATA drive.... > > The machine we are testing with has 12 cores, 12 hyperthreaded > siblings, and 48GB of RAM. The filesystem is backed by a > partition on one large hardware RAID. There is a second bug we've > run into that I'll report tomorrow. So why would creating a 16GB file cause and OOM condition if you have 48GB RAM? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Is that memory free, of are other things running and consuming memory? > Could you point me to the current tree you are working with? > 2.6.39-tot doesn't mean anything to me. tot = Top of Tree. IOWs, 2.6.39-tot means the latest development kernel Linus has released. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs