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 p44NCHPb097348 for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 18:12:18 -0500 Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id DD318C49D0E for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 16:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.143]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id iyxWRgsqRwJdUx7F for ; Wed, 04 May 2011 16:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 09:15:49 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks Message-ID: <20110504231549.GA25956@dastard> References: <20110501080149.GD13542@dastard> <20110502121958.GA2978@dastard> <20110503005114.GE2978@dastard> <20110504073615.GD9114@dastard> <20110504111211.GF9114@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 , Markus Trippelsdorf , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:10:04PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011 at 21:12, Dave Chinner wrote: > >> Ok, that will be helpful. Also helpful is that I've (FINALLY!) > >> reproduced this myself, and i think i can now reproduce it at will > >> on a highmem i686 machine. I'll look into it more later tonight.... > > I've tried to reproduce it on an SMP i686 with 1024MB RAM, but there was > no OOM there. > > > And here's a patch for you to try. It fixes the problem on my test > > machine..... > > Excellent! After one run with that patch, the machine does not go OOM any > more when running du(1) over this XFS filesystem. Ok, That is good to know that we are seeing the same problem ;) I'll push the fix through the XFS tree to mainline. Thanks for all your effort helping me understand and debug the problem, Christian. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs