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Message-ID: <20110504231549.GA25956@dastard> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 09:15:49 +1000 From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> To: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>, 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 Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:10:04PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011 at 21:12, Dave Chinner wrote: > >> Ok, that will be helpful. Also helpful is that I've (FINALLY!) > >> reproduced this myself, and i think i can now reproduce it at will > >> on a highmem i686 machine. I'll look into it more later tonight.... > > I've tried to reproduce it on an SMP i686 with 1024MB RAM, but there was > no OOM there. > > > And here's a patch for you to try. It fixes the problem on my test > > machine..... > > Excellent! After one run with that patch, the machine does not go OOM any > more when running du(1) over this XFS filesystem. Ok, That is good to know that we are seeing the same problem ;) I'll push the fix through the XFS tree to mainline. Thanks for all your effort helping me understand and debug the problem, Christian. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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