>> Nope, kept OOMing and killing everything .
>
> Something broke.
Even I worked that out ;-)
> Blockdevices only use ZONE_NORMAL for their pagecache. That cat will
> selectively put pressure on the normal zone (and DMA zone, of course).
Ah, I recall that now. That's fundamentally screwed.
>> Will try again. Presumably "find /" should do it? ;-)
>
> You must have a lot of files.
Nothing too ridiculous. Will try find on a small subset repeatedly and see if
it keeps growing first - maybe that'll show a leak.
Thanks,
M.
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