Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] XFS memory allocation deadlock

2019-08-22 Thread Bill Maidment
On 22/08/2019 11:20 pm, Pat Riehecky wrote: I believe the solution is two fold: - The SL 7.7 kernel will help prevent the problem from reoccurring (currently in sl-testing, scheduled for release Monday) - Existing fragmentation should probably be cleaned up via xfs_fsr[1] Thanks Pat and

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] XFS memory allocation deadlock

2019-08-22 Thread Pat Riehecky
I believe the solution is two fold: - The SL 7.7 kernel will help prevent the problem from reoccurring (currently in sl-testing, scheduled for release Monday) - Existing fragmentation should probably be cleaned up via xfs_fsr[1] Pat [1]

Re: XFS memory allocation deadlock

2019-08-22 Thread Mark Stodola
On 8/21/19 8:10 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi During copying a large file (about 200GB) to a backup hard drive, I am getting a multitude of XFS possible memory allocation deadlock messages. RedHat Portal shows the following: XFS issues "possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc"

XFS memory allocation deadlock

2019-08-21 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi During copying a large file (about 200GB) to a backup hard drive, I am getting a multitude of XFS possible memory allocation deadlock messages. RedHat Portal shows the following: XFS issues "possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc" messages Solution Verified - Updated August 9

Re: XFS memory allocation deadlock

2019-06-27 Thread Bill Maidment
On 27/06/2019 1:06 am, Denice Deatrich wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi friends I have run into a problem in SL7.6 copying a large KVM guest lvm snapshot file using cp --sparse=always I get flooded with the following message: XFS: cp(12985) possible memory allocation

Re: XFS memory allocation deadlock

2019-06-26 Thread Denice Deatrich
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Bill Maidment wrote: > Hi friends > I have run into a problem in SL7.6 copying a large KVM guest lvm snapshot > file using cp --sparse=always > I get flooded with the following message: > > XFS: cp(12985) possible memory allocation deadlock size 131088 in > kmem_realloc

XFS memory allocation deadlock

2019-06-26 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi friends I have run into a problem in SL7.6 copying a large KVM guest lvm snapshot file using cp --sparse=always I get flooded with the following message: XFS: cp(12985) possible memory allocation deadlock size 131088 in kmem_realloc (mode:0x250) The copy ends eventually, but it takes