Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:11:57 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Recursive chmod/chown OOM kills box with 32MB RAM |
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Chris, would Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>[CCing namesys] > >Narrowed it down to 100% reproducible case: > > chown -Rc 0:<n> . > >in a top directory of tree containing ~21938 files >on reiser3 partition: > > /dev/sdc3 on /.3 type reiserfs (rw,noatime) > >causes oom kill storm. "ls -lR", "find ." etc work fine. > >I suspected that it is a leak in winbindd libnss module, >but chown does not seem to grow larger in top, and also >running it under softlimit -m 400000 still causes oom kills >while chown's RSS stays below 4MB. >-- >vda > > > > Chris, would you like to handle this?
Thanks,
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