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Date:	Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:23:20 +0200
From:	Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@...ellique.com>
To:	"Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@...la.net>
Cc:	xfs@....sgi.com, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer
 [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098]

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

> 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.

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