I believe the solution is two fold:
- The SL 7.7 kernel will help prevent the problem from reoccurring
(currently in sl-testing, scheduled for release Monday)
- Existing fragmentation should probably be cleaned up via xfs_fsr[1]
Pat
[1]
https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2017/04/xfs-possible-memory-allocation-deadlock-kmem_alloc/
On 8/21/19 8:10 PM, Bill Maidment wrote:
> Hi
> During copying a large file (about 200GB) to a backup hard drive, I am
> getting a multitude of XFS possible memory allocation deadlock messages.
> RedHat Portal shows the following:
>
> XFS issues "possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc" messages
> Solution Verified - Updated August 9 2019 at 2:51 AM - English
> Issue
>
> Seeing file system access issues on XFS based file systems.
> dmesg shows continuous entries with:
>
> XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250)
>
> Does anyone know what the solution is? And if SL7 will get this
> solution soon?
>
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Pat Riehecky
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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