On 09/28/16 21:45, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On 09/28/16 20:46, E V wrote: >> I just booted my backup box with 4.8rc8 and started an rsync onto >> btrfs and it panic'd with OOM a couple hours later. I thought the OOM >> problems from 4.7 we're supposed to be fixed in 4.8, or did I get that >> wrong? No users or anything else on the system. > > Keep in mind that those problems are generic, other filesystems also > suffer: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg114123.html > > I don't see any recent compaction-related patches in Linus' tree at > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/mm/
Sorry, that was not quite correct. -stable 4.7.x and 4.8 contain a workaround (http://goo.gl/DiwfPH) that is supposed to help. That went into 4.8rc8 already, so not sure what happened in your case. > So unless they get merged in the last minute it looks like 4.8 will > be DOA. Running 4.8 final now, let's see what happens.. -h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
