"Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
>
> >> My big NUMA box went OOM over the weekend and started killing things
> >> for no good reason (2.5.43-mm2). Probably running some background
> >> updatedb for locate thing, not doing any real work.
> >>
> >> meminfo:
> >>
> >
> > Looks like a plain dentry leak to me. Very weird.
> >
> > Did the machine recover and run normally?
>
> Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
Something broke.
> > Was it possible to force the dcache to shrink? (a cat /dev/hda1
> > would do that nicely)
>
> Well, I didn't try that, but even looking at man pages got oom killed,
> so I guess not ... were you looking at the cat /dev/hda1 to fill pagecache
> or something? I have 16Gb of highmem (pretty much all ununsed) so
> presumably that'd fill the highmem first (pagecache?)
Blockdevices only use ZONE_NORMAL for their pagecache. That cat will
selectively put pressure on the normal zone (and DMA zone, of course).
> > Is it reproducible?
>
> Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
You must have a lot of files.
Actually, I expect a `find /' will only stat directories,
whereas an `ls -lR /' will stat plain files as well. Same
thing for dcache, but the ls will push the icache harder.
I don't know if updatedb stats regular files. Presumably not.
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