Hi,

On 02.12.2010 11:58, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Oliver Welter:
>> I dont get OOM messages, I guess libau is the "readdir in userspace"
>> option from the kernel config?
>>
>> As I am running aufs in vservers (kind of jail) - is it necessary to
>> install the aufs-userspace helpers in every guest or is this all handled
>> from the root context?
> 
> Then what is the message from kernel? Do you get the stack trace?
> 
> libau.so is based upon ld.so/ld-linux.so's feature, and you need to set
> some environment variables.
> Generally, when your application calls readdir(3), ld.so binds it to the
> one in libc.so. If you set environment var, it will be bound to the one
> in libau.so. It means libau.so (the file itself) and env. var are
> necessary for every guests. It doesn't matter whatever you place
> libau.so as long as application in guests can refer to it.
> Please see the manual in detail.
> 
> But if your problem is unrelated to OOM, libau may not help.
> 

I cant really put a sense in it, but I had a directory with 150k! Files
in it and after removing it the performance is much better. Looks like
aufs has a general problem with a large number of files per directory.
The same du directly on the "base" fs works without any issues.

Oliver
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