Bug 118352
Summary: | (VM) setfiles exhausts available memory | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dan Williams <dcbw> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 2 | CC: | jmorris, pfrields, pgraner, sdsmall | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2004-12-09 18:23:30 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Bug Blocks: | 114963, 123268, 136451 | ||||||
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Description
Dan Williams
2004-03-15 21:03:56 UTC
This looks like it might be a kernel problem.
The app is not growing but free memory is dropping.
> Stephen Smalley says he sees similar behaviour when running
> Ah, good point - I was just looking at memory consumption by the
> process, not at the massive bleeding of overall free memory during a
> setfiles run. Looks like find / -xdev -ls > /dev/null yields the
> same result; requires further investigation.
Memory seems to free up when the app exits.
Created attachment 98608 [details]
kernel messages when running out of memory running setfiles
This is using kernel 2.6.3-2.1.253 on x86-64 box
I've looked into this on i386 and have not observed anything unusual (e.g. memory pressure reclaims dcache, ext3 inode cache slab entries just fine). Can you please test with the current Fedora kernel? If you still see the problem, are you able to duplicate it on an i386 box? This looks a lot like the updatedb problem report. You might want to try Arjan's latest and greatest still a problem with the 2.6.9 updates ? Haven't experienced for some time, if it occurs again I'll reopen or file a new one. |