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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
