Re: Kernel 2.6.30: Memory/XFS leak, OOM killer kills many processes

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a daily cron that backs up my root filesystem using xfsdump, it has 
>> remain unchanged for at least 7-10 kernel versions.  When I migrated to 
>> 2.6.30, when the xfsdump ran at its scheduled time, nearly all of my 
>> processes were killed due to an OOM situation, I can reproduce the situation.
>>
>> Kernel: 2.6.30
>> Dist: Debian Testing
>> xfsdump: 2.2.48-1
> 
> Kernel 2.6.29.4 does not exhibit this problem:
> 
> xfsdump: estimated dump size: 8694781376 bytes
> xfsdump: creating dump session media file 0 (media 0, file 0)
> xfsdump: dumping ino map
> xfsdump: dumping directories
> xfsdump: dumping non-directory files
> xfsdump: ending media file
> xfsdump: media file size 8294709848 bytes
> xfsdump: dump size (non-dir files) : 8208863560 bytes
> xfsdump: dump complete: 102 seconds elapsed
> xfsdump: Dump Status: SUCCESS
> 
> XFS(?) bug in 2.6.30.

Any chance for a bisect run? :)

Or, just as a thought, watch slabtop while you run the dump?

-Eric