From: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
To: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Cc: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>,
Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 4.11.3: BTRFS critical (device dm-1): unable to add free space :-17 => btrfs check --repair runs clean
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:26:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJCQCtQJmWaPYvvcApcR6_mVVkFvyALaTpcazhBGSDQAwzcBPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170620154429.GC22987@merlins.org>
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> wrote:
> In the meantime, I ran into this again:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195863
> btrfs check of a big filesystem kills the kernel due to OOM (but btrfs userspace is not OOM killed)
>
> Is it achievable at all for btrfs check to realize that it's taking all the
> available RAM in kernel space, is about to crash the system, and cancel the
> check before the system crashes?
> I've already confirmed that it doesn't use swap. I've just had to order new
> RAM to upgrade my machine from 24GB to 32GB, but 32GB is max for that
> hardware, so hopefully the lowmem repair stuff will work before I hit the
> 32GB limit next time.
Right now Btrfs isn't scalable if you have to repair it because large
volumes run into this problem; one of the reasons for the lowmem mode.
It's a separate bug that it OOMs even with swap, I don't know why it
won't use that, it should be up to kernel memory management to deal
with this; I know this works with xfs_repair. I don't know if the idea
is that normal mode will go away, in favor of lowmem mode, or if there
are fixes still planned for normal mode. If it's going to stick
around, it needs to be able to use swap, same for lowmem mode. Just
running into a total inability to --repair isn't OK.
--
Chris Murphy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-21 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-20 14:39 4.11.3: BTRFS critical (device dm-1): unable to add free space :-17 => btrfs check --repair runs clean Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 15:23 ` Hugo Mills
2017-06-20 15:26 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 15:36 ` Hugo Mills
2017-06-20 15:44 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 23:12 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-20 23:58 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-21 3:31 ` Chris Murphy
2017-06-21 3:43 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-21 15:13 ` How to fix errors that check --mode lomem finds, but --mode normal doesn't? Marc MERLIN
2017-06-21 23:22 ` Chris Murphy
2017-06-22 0:48 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-22 2:22 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-22 2:53 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-22 4:08 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-23 4:06 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-23 8:54 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-23 16:17 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-24 2:34 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-26 10:46 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-27 23:11 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-28 7:10 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-28 14:43 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-01 17:06 ` 4.11 relocate crash, null pointer Marc MERLIN
2017-05-01 18:08 ` 4.11 relocate crash, null pointer + rolling back a filesystem by X hours? Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 1:50 ` Chris Murphy
2017-05-02 3:23 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 4:56 ` Chris Murphy
2017-05-02 5:11 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 18:47 ` btrfs check --repair: failed to repair damaged filesystem, aborting Marc MERLIN
2017-05-03 6:00 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-03 6:17 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-03 6:32 ` Roman Mamedov
2017-05-03 20:40 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-07 5:37 ` ctree.c:197: update_ref_for_cow: BUG_ON `ret` triggered, value -5 Marc MERLIN
2017-07-07 5:39 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-07 9:33 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-07-07 16:38 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 4:34 ` 4.11.6 / more corruption / root 15455 has a root item with a more recent gen (33682) compared to the found root node (0) Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 5:05 ` We really need a better/working btrfs check --repair Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 6:34 ` 4.11.6 / more corruption / root 15455 has a root item with a more recent gen (33682) compared to the found root node (0) Marc MERLIN
2017-07-09 7:57 ` Martin Steigerwald
2017-07-09 9:16 ` Paul Jones
2017-07-09 11:17 ` Duncan
2017-07-09 13:00 ` Martin Steigerwald
2017-07-29 19:29 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-07-29 23:38 ` Duncan
2017-07-30 14:54 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-07-31 4:53 ` Duncan
2017-07-31 20:32 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-08-01 1:36 ` Duncan
2017-08-01 15:18 ` Imran Geriskovan
2017-07-31 21:07 ` Ivan Sizov
2017-07-31 21:17 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-07-31 21:39 ` Ivan Sizov
2017-08-01 16:41 ` Ivan Sizov
2017-07-31 22:00 ` Justin Maggard
2017-08-01 6:38 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 19:59 ` 4.11 relocate crash, null pointer + rolling back a filesystem by X hours? Kai Krakow
2017-05-02 5:01 ` Duncan
2017-05-02 19:53 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-23 16:58 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-24 10:16 ` Duncan
2017-05-05 1:19 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-05-05 2:10 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-05-05 2:40 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-05 5:03 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-05-05 15:43 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-17 18:23 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-05 1:13 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-29 13:36 ` How to fix errors that check --mode lomem finds, but --mode normal doesn't? Lu Fengqi
2017-06-29 15:30 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-06-30 14:59 ` Lu Fengqi
2017-06-22 4:08 ` Qu Wenruo
2017-06-21 12:04 ` 4.11.3: BTRFS critical (device dm-1): unable to add free space :-17 => btrfs check --repair runs clean Duncan
2017-06-21 3:26 ` Chris Murphy [this message]
2017-06-21 4:06 ` Marc MERLIN
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