Hi!
> > >[CCing namesys]
> > >
> > >Narrowed it down to 100% reproducible case:
> > >
> > > chown -Rc 0:<n> .
> > >
> > >in a top directory of tree containing ~21938 files
> > >on reiser3 partition:
> > >
> > > /dev/sdc3 on /.3 type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
> > >
> > >causes oom kill storm. "ls -lR", "find ." etc work fine.
> > >
> > >I suspected that it is a leak in winbindd libnss module,
> > >but chown does not seem to grow larger in top, and also
> > >running it under softlimit -m 400000 still causes oom kills
> > >while chown's RSS stays below 4MB.
>
> In order for the journaled filesystems to make sure the FS is consistent after
> a crash, we need to keep some blocks in memory until other blocks have been
> written. These blocks are pinned, and can't be freed until a certain amount
> of io is done.
>
> In the case of reiserfs, it might pin as much as the size of the journal at
> any time. The default journal is 32MB, which is much too large for a system
> with only 32MB of ram.
>
> You can shrink the log of an existing filesystem. The minimum size is 513
> blocks, you might try 1024 as a good starting poing.
>
> reiserfstune -s 1024 /dev/xxxx
>
> The filesystem must be unmounted first.
Could we refuse to mount filesystem unless journal_size <
physmem_size/2 or something like that?
I was not aware of this trap, and it seems unlikely that users know
about it...
Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
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