On 2016-09-27 13:44, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno: > > > Hmm, rsync doesn't use libpthread, so that clearly rules out a > > libpthread issue. That said, all the example you gave fail to allocate > > the memory correctly, either through malloc (glibc) or mmap (kernel) > > which returns -ENOMEM. This points to either a kernel issue, or a > > limitation of the memory using for example ulimit. > > The mm subsystem in the 4.7 upstream kernel has a very visible issue > which causes allocation failures: > > <http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=147422898523307> > > There are other threads as well. (I personally see this with the > xfs_inode cache.) > > Usually it manifests in premature OOM killer invocations, but maybe > something the reporter's system configuration changes that (perhaps it > runs with vm.overcommit_memory=2?). Indeed, that is correct. The problem has been fixed in version 4.7.5, while the reporter seems to run version 4.7.4. Upgrading to the latest kernel version would be a good start.
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