On 2016.09.04 at 11:59 +0200, Francesco Turco wrote: > I use Btrfs on a Gentoo Linux system with kernel 4.7.2. When my computer > is under heavy I/O load some application often crashes, for example > ClamAV, Firefox or Portage. I suspect the problem is due to Btrfs, but I > may be wrong. > > These are the most recent error messages from journalctl, but I have > many other similar ones in my logs: > > *** BEGIN *** > > Sep 04 10:13:26 desktop kernel: gpg-agent invoked oom-killer: > gfp_mask=0x27080c0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOTRACK), > order=2, oom_ > > Is the problem already known? Should I report a bug? Is there a patch I > can try? Thanks.
This issue was recently fixed by: commit 6b4e3181d7bd5ca5ab6f45929e4a5ffa7ab4ab7f Author: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Date: Thu Sep 1 16:14:41 2016 -0700 mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request It will be backported to the 4.7.x stable kernel, too. -- Markus -- 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
