Re: deep chmod|chown -R begin to start OOMkiller

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> There are two immediate solutions that I can see to your problem:
> 
>       1. Buy more RAM. If you can afford 10TB of disk, then you can
>          afford to buy at least a couple of GB of RAM to go with it.
> 
>       2. Remake your filesystem with a smaller log so that
>            it can't hold as many active items.

It is nasty that XFS can get into this state though. Would it make
sense to limit the in memory log based on available memory? 
With such a limit it would still work, but slower, right?

-Andi