Running 20 find(1) instances, where each has a "private" tree with million of files runs into trouble with the kernel killing them (and others): [ 785.194378] UVM: pid 1998.1998 (find), uid 0 killed: out of swap [ 785.194378] UVM: pid 2010.2010 (find), uid 0 killed: out of swap [ 785.224675] UVM: pid 1771.1771 (top), uid 0 killed: out of swap [ 785.285291] UVM: pid 1960.1960 (zsh), uid 0 killed: out of swap [ 785.376172] UVM: pid 2013.2013 (find), uid 0 killed: out of swap [ 785.416572] UVM: pid 1760.1760 (find), uid 0 killed: out of swap [ 785.416572] UVM: pid 1683.1683 (tmux), uid 0 killed: out of swap
This should not be happening -- there is tons of reusable RAM as virtually all of the vnodes getting here are immediately recyclable. $elsewhere I got a report of a workload with hundreds of millions of files which get walked in parallel -- a number high enough that it does not fit in RAM on boxes which run it. Out of curiosity I figured I'll check how others are doing on the front, but key is that this is not a made up problem. I'm running NetBSD 10, kernel built from this commit at top of the tree: Author: andvar <and...@netbsd.org> Date: Sat Oct 14 08:05:25 2023 +0000 fix various typos in comments and documentation, mainly in word "between". Specs are 24 cores, 24G of RAM and ufs2 with noatime. swap is *not* configured. Test generates 20 separate trees, each has 1000 directories with 1000 files (or 20 million files in total + some dirs). Repro instructions are here: https://people.freebsd.org/~mjg/.junk/fstree.tgz Note that parallel creation of the these trees is dog slow, took over 40 minutes for me. I had to pass extra flags to newfs to for the target fs to even fit this inode count: newfs -n 220000000 -O 2 /dev/wd1e So the expected outcome is that this finishes (extra points for reasonable time) instead of having userspace getting killed. I don't know what kind of diagnostic info would be best here, but given repro steps above I don't think I need to look for something. Have fun. :) -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>