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

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:58:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	minchan.kim@...il.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 at 09:37, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Did you read the email that pointed to CONFIG_TINY_RCU as the
> ptotential source of the problem? Can you change to CONFIG_TREE_RCU
> and see if the problem goes away?

Tried with TREE_RCU, unfortunately the problem persists. However, the OOM 
messages did not make it to the disk this time. Syslog continued to work 
until 11:51 (local time), the slabinfo-8-TREE_RCU.txt file was written to 
until 11:57, the machine was already unusable at that point. At 12:07 I 
took a "screenshot" and then powercycled the machine:

  http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/
  (The files marked with -8 are the current ones)

Btw, the xfs filesystem I'm du'ing over is still mounted with "noatime".

Any ideas? Patches to try?

Thanks,
Christian.
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