linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks

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Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:50:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 at 01:02, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 at 09:46, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > BTW, what are your mount options? If it is the problem I suspect it
> > is, then using noatime with stop it from occurring....
> 
> When mounted with noatime, running du(1) accross the XFS volume still 
> triggered the OOM killer, but the backtrace looked somewhat different 
> this time:

Tried again with noatime, this time no OOM message got logged to the disk 
(but may have been logged to the console early on). As it's reproducible, 
I started du(1) across the XFS volume and after a while my SSH connection 
to the box was lost. That's all I got this time:

  http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/oom-6.JPG
  http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/slabinfo-6.txt.bz2

Christian.
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