Bug 1607156 - Btrfs-cleaner memory leak?
Summary: Btrfs-cleaner memory leak?
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: btrfs-progs
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
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Assignee: Josef Bacik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-22 16:33 UTC by Andrea V.
Modified: 2018-07-23 20:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-07-23 20:58:01 UTC
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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

Additional info:
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.
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