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 p3SNYWGp028080 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:34:32 -0500 Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 61B8E11B8D49 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:38:04 -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 zxQ06yF03QeWIxJK for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:37:51 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks Message-ID: <20110428233751.GR12436@dastard> References: <20110424234655.GC12436@dastard> <20110427022655.GE12436@dastard> <20110427102824.GI12436@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Christian Kujau Cc: LKML , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:30:47AM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > Hi David, > > sorry for the late response: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 at 20:28, Dave Chinner wrote: > > hmmmm. Speaking of which - have you changed any of the XFS tunables > > in /proc/sys/fs/xfs/ on your machine (specifically > > xfssyncd_centisecs)? > > No, I did not change anything underneath /proc/sys/fs/xfs. > > > Not easy because there are tree-wide changes that need to be > > preserved (e.g. block layer plugging changes) while others around it > > would need to be reverted.... > > Yeah, I noticed. I wanted to do something like this: > > $ for c in `git log --pretty=oneline --no-merges v2.6.38..v2.6.39-rc2 fs/xfs | awk '{print $1}'`; do > git revert $c > done > > ...but this broke on the 1st or 2nd commit because of unresolved changes. > > Now I'm in the middle of another bisect attempt, trying to reproduce but > Im getting (probably totally unrelated) warnings here: Did you read the email that pointed to CONFIG_TINY_RCU as the ptotential source of the problem? Can you change to CONFIG_TREE_RCU and see if the problem goes away? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs