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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Recursive chmod/chown OOM kills box with 32MB RAM
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:32:50 +0200
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On Monday 30 January 2006 15:22, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 01:11, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > Chris, would Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > >[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.

Will try this and report the result.

Please consider printing a big fat warning at mount time if total RAM
on the system is close to sum of RAM space required for all currently
mounted reiserfs partitions...
--
vda
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