Bug 1607156

Summary:	Btrfs-cleaner memory leak?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrea V. <vezza>
Component:	btrfs-progs	Assignee:	Josef Bacik <josef>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	28	CC:	esandeen, josef, mmahut
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Description Andrea V. 2018-07-22 16:33:06 UTC

Description of problem:
btrfs-cleaner fills up ram and system hangs up 

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How reproducible:
Always as soon as I mount btrfs partition where I removed some snapshots

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Changed snapper config reducing the number of snapshots to keep;
2. Start btrfs-cleaner;
3. Whatch ram filling up with top (in my case 8G);
4. force reboot when the system hangs;
5. After reboot remount btrfs partition;
6. Watch again the ram filling up with top and the system hangs again.

Actual results:
Unusable btrfs partition

Expected results:
Usable btrfs partition

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Comment 1 Eric Sandeen 2018-07-23 17:39:46 UTC

This is something you'll need to report upstream, I think.

Comment 2 Andrea V. 2018-07-23 20:58:01 UTC

ok, anyway I found it is a known problem caused by quota's. I solved disabling quota's.

Closing this bug report.