On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:40:54 +0200 mdraid.pkoch@xxxxxxxx (Peter Koch) wrote: > Dear readers, > > I am shrinking my raid10-array consiting of 16 2TB disks > to 13 disks right now. Reshaping runs for 2 hours and > I'm constantly obervng /proc/mdstat and /proc/meminfo > > SUnreclaim is constantly growing while MemFree and > MemAvailable are decreasing. > > Seems like linux 3.14.16 is leaking memory at a rate > of 4GB per 1TB of reshape data. Hmm... don't know about that bug. Does /proc/slabinfo show some slab much bigger than the rest? > > My machine has 32GB of RAM and if I interpolate the current > memory-values I will run out of mem at 80% of the reshape > operation. This is exactly what happened to me with > linux-3.14.12. If you gracefully shutdown and reboot it should keep pick up where it left off but with more memory free. > > Do I need linux-3.14.17 ?? The only bug I know of was fixed in 3.14.6. I said 3.14.16 before - sorry about typo. I'll if I can reproduce it myself some time next week. NeilBrown > > Kind regards > > Peter Koch > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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