Re: kernel panic with Rawhide RPM

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:37:43PM +0100, P.Dixon wrote:
> And I was running this script (on our hepserv1 machine) when the kernel
> panic occured (on our hepserv2 machine):
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
> export RSYNC_RSH
> cd /
> echo "===> rsyncing hepserv1:/exp/users -> hepserv2:/exp/users"
> rsync -rulHpogtS --delete --force /export/users/ root@hepserv2:/export/users/
            ^

You probably ran out of memory and swap.  -H makes rsync use a *lot* of memory.
Try it without -H or add a few GB of swap. 

XFS unfortunately handles OOM very badly. 


-Andi