2.6.34-rc3: simple du (on a big xfs tree) triggers oom killer [bisected: 57817c68229984818fea9e614d6f95249c3fb098]

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Tuesday 13 April 2010, 11:18:23 Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:50:35AM +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> >
> > Dave, may I ask you kindly for briefly elaborating on the worst
> > consequences of just reverting this hunk, as I've done before?
>
> Well, given that is the new shrinker code generating the warnings,
> reverting/removing that hunk will render the patch useless :0

Excuse me, I didn't express myself well. I'm after the consequences of 
applying the revert, that I posted a few messages above. 

> I'll get you a working 2.6.33 patch tomorrow - it's dinner time
> now....

Cool, thanks. 

Have a nice dinner,
Pete