Re: OCFS and Out Of Memory issue

[Larry Woodman]

Frank, Ryan wrote:

> Yes I did reboot.  The attached file I sent has the slabcache up to when
> the OOM Kill happened I will paste the last few results from that...
>
> --PASTE--
> Thu Feb  3 12:26:26 EST 2005
> slabinfo - version: 1.1 (SMP)
>
> buffer_head       4935182 4936190    108 141009 141034    1 : 1008  252
>
> --END PASTE--
>
> That was the last entry before the system stopped responding... If this
> still does not have enough I can re-run the process again and capture...
>
>  
The problem is that OCFS must not be unlocking the bufferheads so we 
cant reclaim
those and therefore they consume lowmem.  Obviously ext3 does do this 
right since
it works OK but OCFS must not.  I guess you need to talk to Oracle about 
this.

BTW, you are running RHEL3-U4.  Right?

Larry Woodman

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> Monroe, NC
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>  


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