It seems that ext4 also has the same problem. And the problem also happens in 3.11 kernel, seems to be a fs independent things. Qu On tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:36:27 +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > When using testcase generic/224 in xfstests on a 1Gigabytes RAM test > machine, > OOM is triggered after about 5 sec and then hangs the system. > > This bug can be triggered *all the time* but only on 1Gigabytes or less RAM > machine. > If tested on a 2Gigabytes or higher machine, the memory consumption is high, > but OOM will not be triggered and after the testcase, memory consumption > will > return normal. > > So this is not a memory leak but a ridiculous btrfs behavior. > > Since systems with 1Gigabytes are not quite old and even very common in > VMs or > embedded devices, it would be better to fix the ridiculous memory > consuption. > > Thanks, > Qu > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
