Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1 crashes on recursive directory walk [2.6.9 was OK]
From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
To: dap <dap@kenyer.hu>
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>  I've used xfs and ext3 on a large ftp server with lots of files, and
> when I do a 'find / -ls' with the kernel 2.6.10-rc1, the server crashes
> with no Oops or other message. only the reset button give a response.. I
> can reproduce it any time with find, but the point of crash is random,
> it can crash on xfs and ext3 partitions too..  2.6.9 works fine in this
> environment..
> 
> 
> vm settings:
> 
> echo 16384 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
> echo 28 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure
> echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
> 
> I've tried to double min_free_kbytes but didn't help
> 

Hi,

.config & dmesg please, I can't seem to be able to reproduce this under
me own environment. Also a little more description of how the setup
looks like would be nice, I've only gathered one or more raid5 arrays
with xfs and ext3 involved.

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