From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7D77F50 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:50:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC38130405F for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id HDreQPVeMlSnEoXw (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:49:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.4.12] (Athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.5/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id r133nqFx005998 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:49:54 -0800 Message-ID: <510DDE61.6060005@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:49:53 -0800 From: Linda Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: xfsdump showing system problems -- ? ideas? List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs-oss I was looking through my backup logs and noticed a few of the *logs* of the backups having abnormally high size. In looking at them, I saw a bunch of messages (last night 3211 occurrences), of messages like: xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of root attributes for nondir ino 3415547687: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of secure attributes for nondir ino 3415547687: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino 3415547688: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNIN: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino 4225270812: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of root attributes for nondir ino 4225270812: Cannot allocate memory (12) xfsdump: WARNING: could not get list of secure attributes for nondir ino 4225270812: Cannot allocate memory (12) --- looking at my memory usage I see it's close to full -- with *buffer* space. > free -l total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 49422312 49186412 235900 0 1860 43430572 Low: 49422312 49186412 235900 High: 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 5753980 43668332 Swap: 8393924 35748 8358176 Wondering if anyone has seen something like this before? /proc/meminfo has: Cached: 45541568 kB Inactive: 45019412 kB Inactive(file): 44963988 kB (whole thing is:) MemTotal: 49422312 kB MemFree: 1551428 kB Buffers: 1860 kB Cached: 45541568 kB SwapCached: 3228 kB Active: 881488 kB Inactive: 45019412 kB Active(anon): 306736 kB Inactive(anon): 55424 kB Active(file): 574752 kB Inactive(file): 44963988 kB Unevictable: 16476 kB Mlocked: 16476 kB SwapTotal: 8393924 kB SwapFree: 8358224 kB Dirty: 50404 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 371124 kB Mapped: 61184 kB Shmem: 996 kB Slab: 1351896 kB SReclaimable: 1167144 kB SUnreclaim: 184752 kB KernelStack: 4000 kB PageTables: 13948 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 28136632 kB Committed_AS: 636552 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 422548 kB VmallocChunk: 34334065788 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 215040 kB HugePages_Total: 32 HugePages_Free: 32 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 7652 kB DirectMap2M: 2076672 kB DirectMap1G: 48234496 kB -------------------- It doesn't *seem* like I'm even close to out of memory -- (not "'really'").... So why xfsdump complaining? If this was reproducible on some system besides my own, would it be a way of preventing file-security attributes from being read... looks like it affects root, non-root and secure attribs... hmmm... I'm still investigating, but thought I'd shoot off an email to see if anyone has seen anything like this and if the impact might be security "dehancing"...;-/ (not that this is a usually a big problem w/my system, but some sites are more touchy about such things... _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs