Re: OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4

[Noah Meyerhans <noahm@csail.mit.edu>]

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:47:40PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:12:18AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > Well, that's certainly an interesting question.  The filesystem is IBM's
> > JFS.  If you tell me that's part of the problem, I'm not likely to
> > disagree.  8^)
> 
> It would be nice if you could reproduce with ext3 or reiserfs (if with
> ext3, after applying the memleak fix from Andrew that was found in this
> same thread ;). The below make it look like a jfs problem.
> 
> 830696 830639  99%    0.80K 207674        4    830696K jfs_ip

I'll see what I can do.  It may be difficult to move all the data to a
different filesystem.  There are multiple terabytes in use.

I'll refer the JFS developers to this thread, too, they may be able to
shed some light on it.

Thanks.
noah

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Noah Meyerhans                         System Administrator
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


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