https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99511
My btrfs backup script don't work any more (4.0 was OK).
It seems that btrfs snapshot leaks memory and finally OOM killer goes mad...
Test scrip below demonstrates situation.
It seems that ssd disk (/mnt/ssd) is not so bad
but traditional disk (/mnt/wd) using RAID1 leaks memory.
-Markus
uname -a
Linux xxx.xxx.com 4.1.0-rc6 #1 SMP Mon Jun 1 08:55:34 EEST 2015 x86_64 Intel(R)
Xeon(R) CPU E5530 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
gcc-versio 5.1.0 (Gentoo 5.1.0 p1.0, pie-0.6.3)
btrfs-progs v4.0.1
btrfs filesystem df /mnt/wd/
Data, RAID1: total=2.28TiB, used=2.26TiB
Data, single: total=8.00MiB, used=0.00B
System, RAID1: total=8.00MiB, used=368.00KiB
System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=0.00B
Metadata, RAID1: total=112.50GiB, used=5.77GiB
Metadata, single: total=8.00MiB, used=0.00B
GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B
btrfs filesystem df /mnt/ssd/
Data, single: total=97.49GiB, used=91.54GiB
System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
Metadata, single: total=3.01GiB, used=2.02GiB
GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B
#!/bin/bash
btrfs subvolume delete /mnt/wd/foo*
btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/wd/root-vol /mnt/wd/foo
while [ 1 ]; do
btrfs subvolume delete /mnt/wd/foo1
#btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /mnt/wd/foo /mnt/wd/foo1
btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/wd/foo /mnt/wd/foo1
cat /proc/meminfo |grep MemFree
done
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