On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 06:35:31PM +0900, CHIKAMA masaki wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have trouble about a storange behavior on xfs fileststem.
> When I did "chmod -R 755 ." on deep directory, the system became
> slow down and began to start OOMkiller after a while.
How many files in the directory structure and how deep is it?
What is the machine you are running this test on (CPU, ram,
etc).
> At that time, slabtop showed that the number of xfs_ili, xfs_inode,
> and linvfs_icache objects are becoming very large.
>
> My kernel version is 2.6.13.4.
Can you send the output of /proc/meminfo, /proc/slabinfo
and the OOM killer output at the time of the problem?
> A similar report is found at
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/linux-xfs/2003-03/msg00018.html
>
>
> Is this a expected bihavior?
No.
> Now I use "find -exec" insted of "chmod -R".
> The usage of slab memory with "find" is calm and does not start
> OOM killker.
The output of the meminfo and slabinfo files under this test
would also be interesting....
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
R&D Software Enginner
SGI Australian Software Group
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