On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 06:57:16PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: > Hi, > > after the block layer regression[0] seemed to be fixed, the machine > appeared to be running fine. But after putting some disk I/O to the system > (PowerBook G4) it became unresponsive, I/O wait went up high and I could > see that the OOM killer was killing processes. Logging in via SSH was > sometimes possible, but the each session was killed shortly after, so I > could not do much. > > The box finally rebooted itself, the logfile recorded something xfs > related in the first backtrace, hence I'm cc'ing the xfs list too: > > du invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x842d0, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0 > Call Trace: > [c0009ce4] show_stack+0x70/0x1bc (unreliable) > [c008f508] T.528+0x74/0x1cc > [c008f734] T.526+0xd4/0x2a0 > [c008fb7c] out_of_memory+0x27c/0x360 > [c0093b3c] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6f8/0x708 > [c00c00b4] new_slab+0x244/0x27c > [c00c0620] T.879+0x1cc/0x37c > [c00c08d0] kmem_cache_alloc+0x100/0x108 > [c01cb2b8] kmem_zone_alloc+0xa4/0x114 > [c01a7d58] xfs_inode_alloc+0x40/0x13c > [c01a8218] xfs_iget+0x258/0x5a0 > [c01c922c] xfs_lookup+0xf8/0x114 > [c01d70b0] xfs_vn_lookup+0x5c/0xb0 > [c00d14c8] d_alloc_and_lookup+0x54/0x90 > [c00d1d4c] do_lookup+0x248/0x2bc > [c00d33cc] path_lookupat+0xfc/0x8f4 > [c00d3bf8] do_path_lookup+0x34/0xac > [c00d53e0] user_path_at+0x64/0xb4 > [c00ca638] vfs_fstatat+0x58/0xbc > [c00ca6c0] sys_fstatat64+0x24/0x50 > [c00124f4] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 > --- Exception: c01 at 0xff4b050 > LR = 0x10008cf8 > > > This is wih today's git (91e8549bde...); full log & .config on: > > http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/ You memory is full of xfs inodes, and it doesn't appear that memory reclaim has kicked in at all to free any - the numbers just keep growing at 1-2000 inodes/s. I'd say they are not being reclaimmmed because the VFS hasn't let go of them yet. Can you also dump /proc/sys/fs/{dentry,inode}-state so we can see if the VFS has released the inodes such that they can be reclaimed by XFS? BTW, what are your mount options? If it is the problem I suspect it is, then using noatime with stop it from occurring.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
