Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098]

On 04/24/2010 03:30 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

On Saturday 24 April 2010, 23:23:20 Emmanuel Florac wrote:

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Le Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:44:22 +0200 vous écriviez:

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Greg, you might search for a server using xfs filesystems and and a i586 kernel>= 2.6.33, (2.6.32.11 of SLE11-SP1 will serve as well), log in as an ordinary user, do a "du" on /usr, and wait for the other users screaming...

I did precisely that, and didn't notice anything special (du on kernel source tree) kernel 2.6.32.11, deadline scheduler, 7 drives RAID-6 array, 8GB RAM.

I guess, you're not on this specific openSUSE git version of 2.6.32.11 (e.g. the preparation for SP1 of SLE11), which, as usual, carries a lot of stuff from later kernels. The offending patch was included in linux-2.6.33 between -rc4 and -rc5:

Committer Alex Elder Author Dave Chinner Author date 11.01.10 00:51 Parent xfs: Avoid inodes in reclaim when flushing from inode cache Child xfs: Remove inode iolock held check during allocation Branch master origin (Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/...) Branch 2.6.33.1 (Linux 2.6.33) Follows v2.6.33-rc4 (Linux 2.6.33-rc4) Precedes v2.6.33-rc5 (Linux 2.6.33-rc5)

Cheers, Pete

sh*t.. my bad just replied to the wrong thread.. I'm tired.. please ignore this. Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org