>> I'm trying to track this down - this started happening without changing >> the kernel in use, so probably >> a corrupted filesystem. The symptoms are that all memory is suddenly used >> by no apparent source. OOM >> killer is invoked on every task, still can't free up enough memory to >> continue.
I don't know if it is related or not, but my experience (Kernel 3.12.8) is as follows: If a process traverses a directory tree of millions of subdirectories and files, memory consumption increases by Gigabytes and the memory is NEVER freed. The traversal includes no reads, no writes but just getting the directory contents. However a second run for the same dirs does NOT increase memory usage. Interestingly process list gives no clues about what consumed that much memory. Regards, Imran -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
