Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:41488 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755698Ab2K0P5S (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:57:18 -0500 Message-ID: <50B4E2CA.6060508@oracle.com> (sfid-20121127_165736_903009_9A882AE7) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:56:58 -0600 From: Dave Kleikamp MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nico Schottelius , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, David Rientjes , Arend van Spriel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] Out of memory on 3.5 kernels References: <505B1FA0.6030100@broadcom.com> <20120921194931.GA732@schottelius.org> <20120926060653.GD16575@schottelius.org> <20120926085708.GA7839@schottelius.org> <20120927055208.GA25252@schottelius.org> <20121003212311.GA14018@schottelius.org> <22962.1349452084@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20121005175139.GC831@schottelius.org> <20121030103535.GA10526@schottelius.org> <50AD5791.5010702@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <50AD5791.5010702@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/21/2012 04:37 PM, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On 10/30/2012 05:35 AM, Nico Schottelius wrote: >> Good morning, >> >> update: this problem still exists on 3.6.2-1-ARCH and it got worse: >> >> I reformatted the external disk to use xfs, but as the my >> root filesystem is still jfs, it still appears: >> >> Active / Total Objects (% used) : 642732 / 692268 (92.8%) >> Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 24801 / 24801 (100.0%) >> Active / Total Caches (% used) : 79 / 111 (71.2%) >> Active / Total Size (% used) : 603522.30K / 622612.05K (96.9%) >> Minimum / Average / Maximum Object : 0.01K / 0.90K / 15.25K >> >> OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME >> 475548 467649 98% 1.21K 18722 26 599104K jfs_ip ... >> >> I am wondering if anyone is feeling responsible for this bug or if the mid-term >> solution is to move away from jfs? > > Sorry, I haven't taken too close a look at this, but I did notice > another conversation that may be related: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/17/26 > > The commit in question first showed up in 3.5-rc1, which coincides with > your problem. I believe this commit will fix the problem: http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4eff96d It is targeted for the stable kernels.