From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p3TKDTUr079946 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:13:29 -0500 Received: from mail.ud10.udmedia.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id AFAEC156935F for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ud10.udmedia.de (ud10.udmedia.de [194.117.254.50]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id wMSOKGkkpSx8T4nU for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:17:01 +0200 From: Markus Trippelsdorf Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks Message-ID: <20110429201701.GA13166@x4.trippels.de> References: <20110424234655.GC12436@dastard> <20110427022655.GE12436@dastard> <20110427102824.GI12436@dastard> <20110428233751.GR12436@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: minchan.kim@gmail.com, LKML , xfs@oss.sgi.com On 2011.04.29 at 12:58 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 at 09:37, Dave Chinner wrote: > > 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? > > Tried with TREE_RCU, unfortunately the problem persists. However, the OOM > messages did not make it to the disk this time. Syslog continued to work > until 11:51 (local time), the slabinfo-8-TREE_RCU.txt file was written to > until 11:57, the machine was already unusable at that point. At 12:07 I > took a "screenshot" and then powercycled the machine: > > http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/ > (The files marked with -8 are the current ones) > > Btw, the xfs filesystem I'm du'ing over is still mounted with "noatime". > > Any ideas? Patches to try? I could be the hrtimer bug again. Would you try to reproduce the issue with this patch applied? http://git.us.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commit;h=ce31332d3c77532d6ea97ddcb475a2b02dd358b4 -- Markus _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs