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

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:44:22 +0200 vous écriviez:

> Greg, you might search for a server using xfs filesystems and and a
> i586 kernel >= 2.6.33, (2.6.32.11 of SLE11-SP1 will serve as well),
> log in as an ordinary user, do a "du" on /usr, and wait for the other
> users screaming...

I did precisely that, and didn't notice anything special (du on kernel
source tree) kernel 2.6.32.11, deadline scheduler, 7 drives RAID-6
array, 8GB RAM.

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